U.S. citizens living in Hall County may have a harder time ducking jury duty from now on. Among many new laws that will take effect in Georgia on July 1, is one that expands local jury pools to include every citizen who is at least 18 and either votes or has a driver’s license. Before, the state’s jury commission picked the pools to match a county’s demographics in the latest census data in a process called forced balancing.
New state laws go into effect Sunday
Expanding jury pool, cutting jobless benefits among other changes