Today, the Accurate Justice Project’s model legislation, the No Evidence Ignored Act, was introduced in the Georgia House of Representatives. This comes just weeks after we published the model bill earlier this month.

The No Evidence Ignored Act ensures that evidence generated by police forensic databases, especially the powerful CODIS DNA database program, is used to its full potential statewide to both solve violent crimes and correct wrongful convictions. It is a targeted and long-overdue fix that will promote public safety and provide justice to both victims and the incarcerated innocent alike.

If enacted, Georgia will be the first state in the nation to fix the problem of ignored and underutilized forensic database evidence statewide, making it the national model. Though the bill is unlikely to move this year, its introduction now allows valuable conversations with lawmakers to begin. The Accurate Justice Project will be seeking the bill’s reintroduction in next year’s legislative session, with the goal of getting the law passed and signed in 2027.