Can Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council be sued?

Answer 1

As with anything, anyone including governmental organizations CAN be sued. There are several issues that would have to be decided by the judge assigned the case. The first is; does the organization have "official immunity" or "soverign immunity" Basically, this means does being a part of state government give them immunity from any civil suit. Usually, the answer is yes they have limited immunity if not full immunity which brings up other questions a judge has to answer before the case can move forward. Case law as well as common law states that most often a "citizen" cannot sue themselves as is the case when you sue a government entity. More court cases have held that even as bad as a case maybe, unless you can show negligence on the part of the entity or one of its representatives, the body cannot be sued. And then there is the case law that says the entity has to give permission to the plantiff to be sued which is what the federal government is often faced with. Few cases involving the federal government get out of mediation or make it to trial because the feds often do not allow plantiffs to sue or they reach a settlement out of the judiciary for various reasons. Bottom line is it is extremely difficult to sue a government body unless there is gross negligence.