You must contact your local law enforcement agency or district attorney to request an investigation. Under Georgia law, the GBI, as an assisting agency, can ONLY respond to requests for investigations from:
Governing officials of a municipality
District Attorneys
Sheriffs
Superior Court Judges
Chief law enforcement officers of any municipality
Chiefs of county police departments (in counties with
population in excess of 100,000)
Chiefs of regular or volunteer fire departments (in suspected arson cases)
Governor of Georgia (by directive)
For a complete history of the GBI, please visit http://gbi.georgia.gov/gbi-history. The GBI moderates third-party content on its social media sites and reserves the right to restrict or remove comments that contain the following type of language:
• Threatening, discriminatory, obscene, hateful, or profane
• Offensive terms that target protected classes
• Harmful to the reputation of any person or organization
• Suggesting or encouraging violent or illegal activity
• Information that reasonably could compromise individual or public safety
• Advertisements or solicitations of any kind
• Off-topic posts or repetitive posts that are copied and pasted or automated
• Promotion or endorsement of political campaigns or candidates
• Personal information including, but not limited to, identification numbers, phone numbers, and emails
We respect each person’s right to free speech under the First Amendment, and we will not infringe upon that. However, the types of comments listed in this updated policy reach beyond this protection and can negatively affect other users. Effective immediately, comments that fall under any of these categories will be removed from our social media platforms. The goal of this policy is to ensure a safe place for you to engage with each other and our agency. If you want your comment to remain on our page or a post, simply follow the guidelines listed. Full social media policy: https://tinyurl.com/yc2hnp2n
