Rowe v. Coffey

In City of Rome v. Jordan, 263 Ga. 26 (426 SE2d 861) (1993), this Court adopted the majority view on the duty owed by governmental units to provide police protection to individual citizens:

[L]iability does not attach where the duty owed by the governmental unit runs to the public in general and not to any particular member of the public, except where there is a special relationship between the governmental unit and the individual giving rise to a particular duty owed to that individual.

Id. at 27, quoting 38 ALR4th 1194, § l[a] (1985). To establish the scope of the “special relationship”…