ATLANTA – Georgia state Sen. Jeff Mullis, R-Chickamauga, is proposing legislation to create a state-wide alert system to help catch people who kill or seriously injure local, state, or federal law enforcement officers.
Sen. Mullis is introducing Senate Bill 397 behalf of the Georgia Fraternal Order of Police.
Similar to the Amber Alert law, the proposed Blue Alert would activate Georgia Department of Transportation message boards and other state messaging systems to notify the public when a police officer has been killed or seriously injured and the perpetrator is at large.
A Chattahoochee Hills police officer was shot to death in his car earlier this week. The shooting would have activated a Blue Alert if the law had been on the books. Robert M. Cook, 44, has been charged in the slaying.