GAINESVILLE - Gainesville and Hall County are apparently the exception rather than the rule when it comes to a new state law that requires use of a federal database on illegal aliens. But, a leading advocate of immigration reform in Georgia, D.A. King, takes issue with the use of the database by the two.

According to reports, most Georgia cities and counties are still not in compliance with Senate Bill 529, which mandates that local governments enroll in SAVE, the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements program.

SAVE verifies any disbursement for public benefits; Hall County Interim County Administrator and Human Resource Director Charlie Nix said Hall uses SAVE.

“As I understand it we are tied into this program and we have been tied in for the past seven or eight months,â€