of course we are last........
AP Wire | 09/28/2003 | State group suggests reducing traffic ticket penalties:
"Georgia is one of the last states in the nation to still treat tickets for speeding or running a red light as misdemeanors, with the slight chance of up to a $1,000 fine and a year in jail.
A proposal by the state's indigent defense commission would decriminalize traffic tickets. They would become like parking tickets - offenders would only pay a fine and never go to jail.
'The risk of ... a few days in jail really has not made our highways safer,' said Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Norman Fletcher. 'Decriminalization probably would have no effect whatsoever on the safety of our highways.'"