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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-135357"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GEO"
cik: "0000923796"
company_name: "GEO GROUP INC"
filed_at: "2024-05-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-02T08:13:41.239548+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# GEO shareholders approve 12.4M share stock plan increase and raise authorized shares to 225M

## Summary
- Shareholders approved Second Amended and Restated 2018 Stock Incentive Plan, increasing shares available by 12,400,000.
- Shareholders approved amendment to Articles of Incorporation to increase authorized shares from 187.5M to 225M.
- All eight director nominees were elected; Terry Mayotte received 68.6M votes for, lowest among nominees.
- Shareholder proposal for a third-party racial equity audit rejected with 68.8M votes against.
- Say-on-pay approved (63.8M for, 3.7M against); Grant Thornton LLP ratified as independent auditor for 2024.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-135357
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GEO
- cik: 0000923796
- company_name: GEO GROUP INC
- filed_at: 2024-05-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/923796/000119312524135357/0001193125-24-135357-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/923796/000119312524135357/d784973d8k.htm

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