Georgia
Georgia has no statewide mandate for county-level civilian oversight of sheriffs. The Athens-Clarke County Public Safety Civilian Oversight Board — a unified-government body — is the only Georgia county-level body whose statutory jurisdiction explicitly includes the Sheriff's Office. All other major Georgia counties (Fulton, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Cobb, Chatham, Clayton, Richmond) rely on the sheriff's own internal affairs.
State context
Georgia sheriffs are elected constitutional officers under Ga. Const. Art. IX §I, par. III and OCGA Title 15, Chapter 16. County commissions have no operational authority over sheriffs and cannot discipline, direct, or remove them. The commission's only lever is the budget appropriation process.
Georgia enacted no legislation during 2020–2023 creating or requiring county-level civilian oversight of sheriffs. The legislative response to the 2020 reform wave was protective of police: HB 286 (2021) prohibited local governments from cutting police funding by more than 5% annually. The Georgia POST Council (state-level) is the primary accountability mechanism — a credentialing body, not a civilian oversight body.
Counties
| # | County | Oversight body | LE capability | Independence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Clarke | Athens-Clarke County Public Safety Civilian Oversight Board | 8/40 | 53/100 |
| No oversight body established | ||||
| 02 | Appling | — | — | — |
| 03 | Atkinson | — | — | — |
| 04 | Bacon | — | — | — |
| 05 | Baker | — | — | — |
| 06 | Baldwin | — | — | — |
| 07 | Banks | — | — | — |
| 08 | Barrow | — | — | — |
| 09 | Bartow | — | — | — |
| 10 | Ben Hill | — | — | — |
| 11 | Berrien | — | — | — |
| 12 | Bibb | — | — | — |
| 13 | Bleckley | — | — | — |
| 14 | Brantley | — | — | — |
| 15 | Brooks | — | — | — |
| 16 | Bryan | — | — | — |
| 17 | Bulloch | — | — | — |
| 18 | Burke | — | — | — |
| 19 | Butts | — | — | — |
| 20 | Calhoun | — | — | — |
| 21 | Camden | — | — | — |
| 22 | Candler | — | — | — |
| 23 | Carroll | — | — | — |
| 24 | Catoosa | — | — | — |
| 25 | Charlton | — | — | — |
| 26 | Chatham | — | — | — |
| 27 | Chattahoochee | — | — | — |
| 28 | Chattooga | — | — | — |
| 29 | Cherokee | — | — | — |
| 30 | Clay | — | — | — |
| 31 | Clayton | — | — | — |
| 32 | Clinch | — | — | — |
| 33 | Cobb | — | — | — |
| 34 | Coffee | — | — | — |
| 35 | Colquitt | — | — | — |
| 36 | Columbia | — | — | — |
| 37 | Cook | — | — | — |
| 38 | Coweta | — | — | — |
| 39 | Crawford | — | — | — |
| 40 | Crisp | — | — | — |
| 41 | Dade | — | — | — |
| 42 | Dawson | — | — | — |
| 43 | Decatur | — | — | — |
| 44 | DeKalb | — | — | — |
| 45 | Dodge | — | — | — |
| 46 | Dooly | — | — | — |
| 47 | Dougherty | — | — | — |
| 48 | Douglas | — | — | — |
| 49 | Early | — | — | — |
| 50 | Echols | — | — | — |
| 51 | Effingham | — | — | — |
| 52 | Elbert | — | — | — |
| 53 | Emanuel | — | — | — |
| 54 | Evans | — | — | — |
| 55 | Fannin | — | — | — |
| 56 | Fayette | — | — | — |
| 57 | Floyd | — | — | — |
| 58 | Forsyth | — | — | — |
| 59 | Franklin | — | — | — |
| 60 | Fulton | — | — | — |
| 61 | Gilmer | — | — | — |
| 62 | Glascock | — | — | — |
| 63 | Glynn | — | — | — |
| 64 | Gordon | — | — | — |
| 65 | Grady | — | — | — |
| 66 | Greene | — | — | — |
| 67 | Gwinnett | — | — | — |
| 68 | Habersham | — | — | — |
| 69 | Hall | — | — | — |
| 70 | Hancock | — | — | — |
| 71 | Haralson | — | — | — |
| 72 | Harris | — | — | — |
| 73 | Hart | — | — | — |
| 74 | Heard | — | — | — |
| 75 | Henry | — | — | — |
| 76 | Houston | — | — | — |
| 77 | Irwin | — | — | — |
| 78 | Jackson | — | — | — |
| 79 | Jasper | — | — | — |
| 80 | Jeff Davis | — | — | — |
| 81 | Jefferson | — | — | — |
| 82 | Jenkins | — | — | — |
| 83 | Johnson | — | — | — |
| 84 | Jones | — | — | — |
| 85 | Lamar | — | — | — |
| 86 | Lanier | — | — | — |
| 87 | Laurens | — | — | — |
| 88 | Lee | — | — | — |
| 89 | Liberty | — | — | — |
| 90 | Lincoln | — | — | — |
| 91 | Long | — | — | — |
| 92 | Lowndes | — | — | — |
| 93 | Lumpkin | — | — | — |
| 94 | Macon | — | — | — |
| 95 | Madison | — | — | — |
| 96 | Marion | — | — | — |
| 97 | McDuffie | — | — | — |
| 98 | McIntosh | — | — | — |
| 99 | Meriwether | — | — | — |
| 100 | Miller | — | — | — |
| 101 | Mitchell | — | — | — |
| 102 | Monroe | — | — | — |
| 103 | Montgomery | — | — | — |
| 104 | Morgan | — | — | — |
| 105 | Murray | — | — | — |
| 106 | Muscogee | — | — | — |
| 107 | Newton | — | — | — |
| 108 | Oconee | — | — | — |
| 109 | Oglethorpe | — | — | — |
| 110 | Paulding | — | — | — |
| 111 | Peach | — | — | — |
| 112 | Pickens | — | — | — |
| 113 | Pierce | — | — | — |
| 114 | Pike | — | — | — |
| 115 | Polk | — | — | — |
| 116 | Pulaski | — | — | — |
| 117 | Putnam | — | — | — |
| 118 | Quitman | — | — | — |
| 119 | Rabun | — | — | — |
| 120 | Randolph | — | — | — |
| 121 | Richmond | — | — | — |
| 122 | Rockdale | — | — | — |
| 123 | Schley | — | — | — |
| 124 | Screven | — | — | — |
| 125 | Seminole | — | — | — |
| 126 | Spalding | — | — | — |
| 127 | Stephens | — | — | — |
| 128 | Stewart | — | — | — |
| 129 | Sumter | — | — | — |
| 130 | Talbot | — | — | — |
| 131 | Taliaferro | — | — | — |
| 132 | Tattnall | — | — | — |
| 133 | Taylor | — | — | — |
| 134 | Telfair | — | — | — |
| 135 | Terrell | — | — | — |
| 136 | Thomas | — | — | — |
| 137 | Tift | — | — | — |
| 138 | Toombs | — | — | — |
| 139 | Towns | — | — | — |
| 140 | Treutlen | — | — | — |
| 141 | Troup | — | — | — |
| 142 | Turner | — | — | — |
| 143 | Twiggs | — | — | — |
| 144 | Union | — | — | — |
| 145 | Upson | — | — | — |
| 146 | Walker | — | — | — |
| 147 | Walton | — | — | — |
| 148 | Ware | — | — | — |
| 149 | Warren | — | — | — |
| 150 | Washington | — | — | — |
| 151 | Wayne | — | — | — |
| 152 | Webster | — | — | — |
| 153 | Wheeler | — | — | — |
| 154 | White | — | — | — |
| 155 | Whitfield | — | — | — |
| 156 | Wilcox | — | — | — |
| 157 | Wilkes | — | — | — |
| 158 | Wilkinson | — | — | — |
| 159 | Worth | — | — | — |