Yes, you should continue to check with Georgia to see if your ticket is recorded in their traffic ticket system so you can comply with the citation by paying the fine.

Georgia and your home state of Maryland are both members of the Non Resident Violator Compact (NRVC). This compact requires member states to suspend the driver's license of drivers who receive a traffic ticket out of state and fail to comply by paying the fine or otherwise taking care of the citation with the proper authorities.

Thus if you do not take care of the ticket and the ticket is placed in the GA traffic ticket record then the Georgia courts will inform the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA) so that they will suspend your license.

You can call the court listed on the ticket to see if the clerk of the court can tell you when the ticket should be placed in the system. Sometimes it can take right up to the due date/court date listed on the ticket.

My husband received a ticket out of state the first week of September last year and had to continually call the clerk of the court to see if the ticket had been placed in the system. He, as you, had hopes that the officer might have lost his ticket book or that the ticket would somehow not make it into the system, however it did. Two days before the "due date" of the ticket in late November the ticket finally made it into the system to be paid. The court said they were just that behind in keying in the tickets.

Likely the same sort of situation applies to your ticket in Georgia but speak with the court to find out when the ticket might be in the system so you can pay it and also find out what happens if the ticket does not make it in by the due date or not at all. This way you will know how to address those situations if they occur. You will want to make sure that you properly comply so that your MD license cannot be suspended.