Georgia

The sponsors of a federal measure to allow robo-calls to cell phones have withdrawn their proposal following opposition from consumer advocates and attorneys general nationwide, Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens said.

Romona Ferrell-Davis was indicted by a DeKalb County Grand Jury on December 8, 2011 on four counts of computer theft, one count of Computer Invasion of Privacy and one count of Identity Fraud. Ferrell-Davis was employed at Hewlett-Packard (HP), fiscal intermediary for the Georgia Department of Community Health, the Georgia Medicaid agency, from Nov. 10, 2010 to Oct. 11, 2011. The indictment charges that on October 7, 2011, and again on October 11, 2011, Ferrell-Davis