What Georgia Commons is

Public documents are technically available, but they are scattered, dense, and hard to use. Georgia Commons gathers them in one place, explains them in plain language, and lets you ask questions about them. Every answer comes from a real source document, with a link to the original. It is free, non-partisan, and built in the public interest.

Bills covers legislation from the current session of the Georgia General Assembly: what each bill does, who sponsors it, where it stands, and the full text.

Opinions covers Georgia Supreme Court decisions. Coverage begins with recent years and grows over time; it is not yet a complete historical archive, and each section says exactly what it holds.

More document types are planned, including Georgia Court of Appeals opinions and executive orders.

Each document page includes a plain-language summary and a chat panel. Both are generated by an AI model, and both are grounded in the stored document: the summary is written from the document's own text, and the chat reads the full document before it answers. Quoted passages are checked against the source and must appear in it verbatim; quotes that do not match are discarded.

The AI can still be wrong. It can misread a passage or overstate a conclusion, so treat its answers as a starting point and follow the link to the original document for anything that matters. Nothing on this site is legal advice.

Georgia Commons is built by Georgia Civic Data, an independent Georgia nonprofit in formation with one mission: making Georgia's public data usable for everyone.

Its sibling product, Georgia Homeroom, helps parents of Georgia K-12 students understand what the state expects schools to teach, grade by grade.

Georgia Commons is independent. It is not affiliated with, operated by, or endorsed by the State of Georgia, its courts, the Georgia General Assembly, or any government agency. It works from public documents; it does not speak for the institutions that produce them. Summaries are for general information and are not legal advice.

Bill data comes from LegiScan. Court opinion data comes from CourtListener, a project of the Free Law Project. Georgia Commons summarizes and explains these documents; the official versions live with the Georgia General Assembly and the Supreme Court of Georgia.

Questions, corrections, or ideas? Email shane@georgiacivicdata.org.