The association that represents Georgia process servers—currently locked in litigation with the nearly all of state’s sheriffs over their refusal to allow private process servers—is raising the alarm over proposed new rules that it says will essentially allow the sheriffs to eliminate them.
In fact, according to Georgia Association of Professional Process Servers (GAPPS) Administrator Paul Tamaroff, the amended regulations seem to give local sheriffs the authority to prohibit even court-appointed process servers from serving in their counties, a dramatic shift in current policy and one he says is prohibited by Georgia law.
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