Senate Public Safety Committee members heard a detailed update on subcommittee work related to school-zone speed management systems and were given a procedural update on House Bill 61, the Georgia Anti-Squatter Act of 2025.

Vice Chairman Robertson, who chaired a 6 a.m. subcommittee meeting that ran three hours, told the full committee the subcommittee made a number of recommendations intended to protect privacy, ensure due process and make local governments responsible for operations. Robertson said subcommittee suggestions include making municipal and county governments responsible for contracts and hours of operation for new systems; routing revenue created by the systems to local governments; requiring citations to be mailed within seven days and to include clear instructions for how citizens may challenge citations in local courts; and limiting new systems to issuing warnings for the first 30 days of operation.

Robertson also recommended strict data rules: he said any data collected on non-violating motorists should be purged immediately from vendor or subcontractor databases. He said flashing lights should be attached to school-zone equipment during operation hours and that systems should include digital signs displaying a driver's speed when the system is active.

The vice chairman described the subcommittee process as detailed and noted the participation of the Department of Public Safety and the Department of Transportation. He said the subcommittee received multiple pieces of proposed language from stakeholders and that the full committee will consider the refined bills on Monday at 1 p.m. The chair added that House Bill 61 has scrivener errors and wrong code sections that are being corrected before it is taken up.

No formal committee votes were taken on the speed-management recommendations during the update; members were asked to submit further comments to Robertson and other staff ahead of Monday's meeting.