# Do Better — The GA Files

> The ‘We Can Do Better’ project — sourced, accountable research on the issues shaping Georgia: its money, its politics, its policy, and its future.

*Source: https://thegafiles.com/do-better.html · The GA Files (thegafiles.com)*

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The “We Can Do Better” Project

# We Can Do Better

Georgia’s biggest decisions — how its **money** gets spent, how its **politics** actually work, how its **policy** gets made — too often happen fast, unaccounted for, and out of public view. This project takes the issues that shape the state, does the homework everyone else skipped — digging into the primary records and showing the work — and lays out a better, more accountable way. The subjects range widely, from data centers to AI governance to campaign money to wherever the next fight over Georgia’s **future** leads. What ties them together isn’t a topic; it’s a standard: sourced, honest, and built to be useful.

## The essays

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### The HUMAN Act: A Model Federal AI Bill

Not a think-piece — an actual model bill, drafted section by section. Independent oversight, a safety-and-security floor, worker protection, market-stability guardrails, and public ownership when taxpayers fund AI data centers. Read the summary or the full text.
Read the essay →](https://thegafiles.com/do-better/human-act.html)
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### Watching the Watchers: Georgia's Surveillance Network

An Atlanta company built America's largest surveillance-camera network — 100,000+ cameras, 4,800 agencies searching it, under 1% of scans tied to a crime. What has gone wrong, in Georgia and nationally, and a framework to keep it from becoming a dragnet. Every claim sourced and labeled.
Read the essay →](https://thegafiles.com/do-better/watching-the-watchers.html)
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### Counting What We Can Verify: Georgia Election Security

Not the rigged machine one side imagines, nor the flawless system the other insists on. What actually protects a Georgia ballot, where the state has cut its own corners, and a nonpartisan way to do elections better.
Read the essay →](https://thegafiles.com/do-better/election-security.html)
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### Building the Data Centers Without Breaking the Community

A $5 billion, 900-megawatt project approved in one evening — no signed tenant, no water permit, no honest accounting. A Central Georgia case study, and a better, more accountable way. Every claim sourced.
Read the essay →](https://thegafiles.com/do-better/data-centers.html)
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### The Flourishing Compact: A New Ruleset of Robotics

Asimov’s laws were built for obedient robots. Real AI is learned, not programmed — this is a ruleset where humans and the minds we make can both thrive.
Read the essay →](https://thegafiles.com/do-better/flourishing-compact.html)

More on the way — each one digs into a specific Georgia issue and shows its work. Have one worth digging into? Email [info@thegafiles.com](mailto:info@thegafiles.com).