Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 20. EDUCATION · Chapter 2. ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION · Article 16. STUDENTS · Part 1. SCHOOL ATTENDANCE

20-2-698. Peace officers may take temporary custody of truant children away from home.

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Any peace officer may assume temporary custody, during school hours, of any child subject to compulsory school attendance who is found away from home and who is absent from a public or private school or a home study program without a valid written excuse from school officials or from the parent or guardian in charge of the home study program.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

Ga. L. 1976, p. 768, § 1; Ga. L. 1984, p. 1266, § 5.

Custody and release of child, § 15-11-500 et seq.

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