Cobb County District Attorney Sonya Allen issued the following statement regarding HB 369, signed into law by Governor Brian Kemp. The law selectively targeted the largest Georgia counties under Black leadership, making elections for various county-wide elections non-partisan, without affecting the remaining counties in Georgia:
DA Allen wrote:
I am deeply disappointed by the signing of HB 369. If this legislation was truly about fairness and removing politics from public safety, it would apply equally to all 159 counties in Georgia — not selectively target only five. Laws of this magnitude should never be crafted to affect only certain communities while excluding the rest of the state…