Complaint No. 1780389734 - 1962033574

Austin Meredith

Thomasville Police Department

, Georgia

Date of Offense

May 10, 2026

Complaint

Statement

Unlawful detention by this officer and he assaulted me by grabbing me and pulling me out of a vehicle when I was being calm and cooperative and he would not tell me why I was being taken out of the vehicle by force when I was complying. Excess use of grabbing, snatching and pulling. Absolutely uncalled for. Abuse of authority; this officer thinks that he can do whatever he pleases and handle other living beings like they're cattle. False arrest and unlawful arrest due to violating my First Amendment right of free speech. Simply arrested because I'm white and the other individual was black. I had to be made an example of that we have no freedom of speech in this country.

Location

13775 U.S. 19, Thomasville, GA 31792, USA

30.9372937, -84.0099814

Georgia Open Records Act

O.C.G.A. §50-18-70 et seq.

The Georgia Open Records Act is a series of laws guaranteeing the public access to public records of government bodies. Public records are those documents generated by individuals or groups in public office in the course of public service. Government agencies that are included in the act are:

Every state department, agency, board, bureau, commission and authority.
Every county, municipal corporation, school district, or other political subdivision of the state.
Every department, agency, board, bureau, commission, authority, or similar body of each such county, municipal corporation, or other political subdivision of the state.
Every city, county, regional or other authority established pursuant to law.
With some exceptions, "any nonprofit organization that receives more than one third of its funds in the form of a direct allocation of tax funds from the governing authority of an agency."

Records in the Georgia Open Records Act that are exempt are records related to the provision of staff services to individual members of the General Assembly by the Legislative and Congressional Reapportionment Office, the Senate Research Office, or the House Research Office, or GIS Data.

Any citizen of the state can request public records and requesters do not have to state a purpose. Once they have been obtained, there is no restriction on how records can be used, and agencies have three days to supply a response.