Law enforcement authority has returned to the Georgia Department of Agriculture, which oversees Georgia’s largest economic sector and last had powers in 2013. Harlan Proveaux, who is the new division leader, says they’ll handle areas like animal cruelty, drugs in the agriculture arena, and agro-terrorism, and will assist local law enforcement.
Proveaux says he hopes to have 10 sworn officers depending on what the General Assembly tasks his office with. There will be at least one federally-funded officer focused solely on labor trafficking, an issue that came to the forefront in recent years.
