Kemp signs bill inspired by Laken Riley murder

Governor Brian Kemp signs a bill inspired by the February murder of nursing student Laken Riley, who was killed on the campus of the University of Georgia, allegedly by an illegal alien from Venezuela. The new law requires jails in Georgia to check the immigration status of inmates and mandates local governments to apply to a federal program to help enforce immigration laws.

It denies state funding to communities that don’t cooperate.

Laken Riley, who was 22 years old, was killed February 22 while running on the UGA campus. Her accused killer, 26 year-old Venezuelan Jose Ibarra, was arrested the next day and is being held without bail in the Athens-Clarke County jail.

The Governor signed a string of public safety measures in a visit to the Georgia Public Safety Training Center in Forsyth. Another bill that is now law: cash bail requirements for thirty crimes in Georgia.