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title: "Posting information harmful to children online (Art. 144¹¹)"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/administrative-and-public-law-en/posting-information-harmful-to-children-online-art-14411-en"
field: "Administrative & Public Law"
description: "Article 144¹¹: posting information harmful to children online carries a 1,000 lari fine, 3,000 if repeated. Appeal and defence — Legal.ge."
updated: "2026-10-14"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Posting information harmful to children online (Art. 144¹¹)

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## What Article 144¹¹ covers

Article 144¹¹ of the Georgian Code of Administrative Offences combines two rather different situations into a single provision. The first is a breach of the rules on placing information harmful to a child on the internet, and of the rules on children's access to the internet network in general education institutions, libraries and specialised children's institutions. The second is failure to comply with a decision of the body holding the relevant supervisory power. These two grounds are alternatives: neither depends on the other, and each on its own is enough to found liability. That structural point matters from the first day of a case, because the first thing to establish is which ground the protocol is actually built on — the content itself, or the failure to comply with a decision. The defence runs along completely different lines in each situation, and material that is decisive for one is often irrelevant to the other.

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### The fine is 1,000 lari. Is that per item of content or for the whole site?

Article 144¹¹ does not measure the fine in units. It names a single amount for the violation — 1,000 lari — and the text does not explain how multiple episodes are counted. That question has to be answered from the protocol itself, so check how many episodes it is built on.

### What is the difference between the 1,000 and 3,000 lari figures?

1,000 lari is the part 1 sanction; 3,000 lari is the part 2 sanction and applies only to the same act committed repeatedly. The difference is 2,000 lari, so if the repeat element is doubtful it is worth challenging on its own, even where the underlying facts are not in dispute.

### Our school library offers open internet access. Who is liable?

The article identifies the settings in which children's internet access rules matter: general education institutions, libraries and specialised children's institutions. The text does not itself allocate liability between the institution and an individual member of staff — that emerges from the protocol, so start by checking whose name it carries.

### We are appealing the authority's decision. Do we still have to comply with it?

Article 144¹¹ treats non-compliance with the authorised body's decision as a ground of liability in its own right, carrying the same 1,000 lari fine. The provision says nothing about whether an appeal suspends the obligation to comply, so that has to be verified separately before deciding not to act on it.

### The content was posted by a user, not by us. Does that matter?

The article makes it an offence to place information harmful to a child on the internet, but its text does not set out how responsibility is distributed where the material was uploaded by someone else. Because the provision is silent on that, it is a factual question in each case, and the evidence of who posted what and when is what decides it.