The majority of Georgia’s courts do not have sexual harassment policies that define prohibited conduct, nor do they have a reporting and investigation process that judicial branch employees can turn to, according to a report released Friday by a Supreme Court of Georgia committee.

The committee found most courts across the state do not conduct regular sexual harassment training for judges and judicial branch employees, although some staff may receive training from the city or county where they are employed, according to the report. As a result, anti-harassment policies that may have been put in place by individual courts, the state’s judicial councils or cities and counties “may not be enforceable against judges by the entities that promulgated the policies,” the report concludes.

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