Legal Opinion
Datz v. Brinson
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided April 5, 1993No. A93A0646PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Beasley, Judge.
Datz sued certain correction officers and officials at Hays Correctional Institute, where he was incarcerated in August 1991, alleging that their negligence allowed other inmates to steal items of personal property from his locker. The court granted defendants’ motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim,, for the reason that OCGA §§ 50-21-21 and 50-21-25 rendered defendants immune from suit, even if they were negligent.
Those statutes, part of the Georgia Tort Claims Act (“the Act”), OCGA § 50-21-20 et seq., provide that “[a] state officer or employee who commits a tort…
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