The Roswell City Council gave preliminary approval Monday to an ordinance which would allow patrons to bring an unopened bottle of wine into a business licensed for consumption. Georgia law already allows patrons to take wine purchased at a restaurant home with them, so long as it was served with a meal and is resealed and locked in the vehicle away from the driver.

Alpharetta passed a similar "brown-bag" law earlier this year. Roswell's measure will go a final vote at the Dec. 12 council meeting.

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Julian Conley listens during opening statements in his trial at Fulton County Superior Court in Atlanta on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. The 25-year-old is accused of fatally shooting 8-year-old Secoriea Turner in July 2020. (Abbey Cutrer/AJC)

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