Hartley v. Agnes Scott College

NAHMIAS, Justice.

We granted certiorari to decide whether a campus police officer employed by a private college qualifies as a “state officer or employee” who may assert immunity from tort suits under the Georgia Tort Claims Act (GTCA), OCGA §§ 50-21-20 to 50-21-37. In Division 1 of Agnes Scott College v. Hartley, 321 Ga. App. 74 (741 SE2d 199) (2013), a three-judge plurality of the Court of Appeals, joined in judgment only by another judge, examined the definition of “state officer or employee” in OCGA § 50-21-22 (7) and concluded that the defendant Agnes Scott College police officers were…