State record · GA · 2026-09-01 · Statute

Georgia

Live on this state’s ALPR statute. The occupancy form on file is not a named ALPR highway instrument. A live card is not a permit in hand.

Highway system

Primary

GDOT-owned / state highway right-of-way as named on GDOT’s Georgia Permit Application System page (Utility Facility Encroachment Permits). Title 32 statutory system definition was not packed.

Owner of the permitting system is GDOT. Do not substitute Florida’s State Highway System definition.

Owner

Primary

Georgia Department of Transportation. GPAS/GUPS administers Utility Facility Encroachment Permits on GDOT right-of-way.

Right-of-way

Not retrieved

not packed. Georgia’s statutory ROW definition is not packed in this build. Do not substitute Florida § 334.03(21).

Public records

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Georgia Open Records Act (O.C.G.A. §§ 50-18-70, 50-18-71 (2012 Department of Law reprint)). Who may request: Any person may inspect and make photographic copies at the time of inspection (§ 50-18-71 as printed in the 2012 reprint). Written request to the custodian / designated open-records officer. Packed from the Georgia Department of Law’s Open Records Act reprint hosted at law.georgia.gov. The PDF is labeled 2012. Later amendments are Unproven. O.C.G.A. § 35-1-22(f) as packed from HB 79 (AS PASSED HOUSE AND SENATE) takes captured license plate data collected by a law enforcement agency out of Article 4 of Chapter 18 of Title 50.

Packed from the Georgia Department of Law’s Open Records Act reprint hosted at law.georgia.gov. The PDF is labeled 2012. Later amendments are Unproven. O.C.G.A. § 35-1-22(f) as packed from HB 79 (AS PASSED HOUSE AND SENATE) takes captured license plate data collected by a law enforcement agency out of Article 4 of Chapter 18 of Title 50.

Open meetings

Secondary

Georgia Open Meetings Act (O.C.G.A. § 50-14-1)

2025 compiled reprint (Justia), labeled effective 1 July 2026. Official law.georgia.gov compiled HTML was not packed. (b)(1): except as otherwise provided by law, all meetings shall be open to the public; all votes at any meeting shall be taken in public after due notice and compliance with posting and agenda requirements.

ALPR statute

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O.C.G.A. § 35-1-22 — Captured license plate data from automated license plate recognition systems. Who may use: a “law enforcement agency” — the Department of Public Safety, the Department of Transportation, and any other state, federal, local, public transit, school, college, or university agency responsible for the prevention and detection of crime, local government code enforcement, and the enforcement of penal, traffic, toll violation, regulatory, game, or controlled substance laws ((a)(3)). Those agencies may collect captured license plate data; the data shall be stored immediately upon collection and not accessed except for a law enforcement purpose ((b)) — “the investigation of an offense or activity initiated by a law enforcement agency” ((a)(4)). Agencies may exchange or share captured plate data with other law enforcement agencies for law enforcement purposes ((c)), and may contract with a person to hold and maintain the data if that person is subject to the agency’s policies and the criminal penalty ((d)(2)). A deploying agency shall maintain use-and-operation policies, including training of officers in the use of captured plate data ((e)). Penalty: any person who knowingly requests, uses, obtains, or attempts to obtain captured plate data of a law enforcement agency under false pretenses or for any purpose other than a law enforcement purpose is, for each such offense, guilty of a misdemeanor of a high and aggravated nature ((d)(1)). Disclosure: captured license plate data collected by a law enforcement agency shall not be subject to public disclosure pursuant to Article 4 of Chapter 18 of Title 50 ((f)). This is a use, retention, sharing, and disclosure rule — not a GDOT install permit. Retention: All such data collected shall be destroyed no later than 30 months after such data were originally collected unless such data are the subject matter of a toll violation or for a law enforcement purpose (§ 35-1-22(b), HB 79 as passed)..

Packed from House Bill 79 (AS PASSED HOUSE AND SENATE), 18 LC 41 1375S/AP, Georgia General Assembly document 176476. That is the enacted section text. The Lexis compiled O.C.G.A. page was not retrieved. A 2018 House committee substitute (document 172496) is not the packed text. 2025 SB 153 is a Code Revision Commission modernization; retrieved Senate-passed and House substitute pages would replace “Department of Public Safety” with “department” in (a)(3) — editorial, not a rewrite of the 30-month rule, and the as-passed CRC act was not packed.

ROW permit

Not retrieved

not packed as an ALPR instrument — GDOT GPAS/GUPS is Utility Facility Encroachment Permits; the retrieved page does not name ALPR. Who may apply: GPAS is GDOT’s online system for Utility Facility Encroachment Permits. GUPS is described as the map-based utility-encroachment interface. Neither retrieved page names ALPR, license-plate readers, or public-safety cameras.. Generic utility encroachment is real. Packing it as the ALPR instrument would be a guess. Do not import Florida GUP, Minnesota OLPA, or Utah Special Use.

Generic utility encroachment is real. Packing it as the ALPR instrument would be a guess. Do not import Florida GUP, Minnesota OLPA, or Utah Special Use.

http://www.dot.ga.gov/GDOT/pages/utilitypermitting.aspx

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