{"data":{"id":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-20-2-698","jurisdiction":"us-ga","citation":"O.C.G.A. § 20-2-698","heading":"Peace officers may take temporary custody of truant children away from home.","body":"Any peace officer may assume temporary custody, during school hours, of any child subject to compulsory school attendance who is found away from home and who is absent from a public or private school or a home study program without a valid written excuse from school officials or from the parent or guardian in charge of the home study program.","path":["TITLE 20 Education","CHAPTER 2 Elementary and Secondary Education","Article 16 Students","PART 1 School Attendance","Subpart 2 Compulsory Attendance"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ga.ocga.2018/release86.2022.11/gov.ga.ocga.title.20.odt","current_through":"Release 86 (2022-11)","vintage":"Public.Resource.Org bulk O.C.G.A., Release 86 (2022-11), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T19:34:57Z","sha256":"a1b3487ae7398bc741b4ba93f4c4f8262f6c990b457677d233b966f46e054dcb","source_id":"us-ga","stale":false,"prev":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-20-2-697","next":"us-ga/o.c.g.a.-20-2-699"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}