Clayton County, GA Filming & Production: Street Closures (2026)

Sec. 43 treats street and lane closures as one of the highest-scrutiny parts of a filming permit. Sec. C(3) makes off-duty police officers mandatory for any shoot where any streets or lanes are to be closed, the same trigger that applies to firearms, pyrotechnics, hazardous materials, or actors wearing look-alike public-safety uniforms. On the front end, Sec. B(1) lets the county deny the permit outright if the Director of Public Works determines that closing a street will cause a substantial risk to public safety, interfere with street maintenance work, or conflict with a previously authorized excavation permit already underway at that location.

If the closure is approved, Sec. C(1) requires the permit holder to take all reasonable steps to minimize interference with the free passage of pedestrians and traffic over public lands and to comply with all lawful directives issued by the Department of Public Safety regarding the closure. Sec. C(4) puts the logistics on the permit holder too: a designee must arrange the off-duty police assistance, the placement of no-parking signs and other traffic control devices under the direction of the Parking Authority, and that work is done at the applicant's expense, not the county's. The same designee gives affected property owners and businesses advance notice and handles cleanup and restoration of the streets once filming wraps.