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Sponsor seeks to remove expiration dates on certain public-records exemptions
Summary
A sponsor told the subcommittee the bill removes expiration dates from five exceptions to the Tennessee Public Records Act so sensitive records (minors, ALPR data, certain law-enforcement materials and some body-camera footage) remain confidential; the committee advanced the bill to full committee.
A sponsor explained a Department of Safety and Homeland Security-backed proposal to amend the Tennessee Public Records Act by removing expiration dates from five confidentiality exceptions, preserving confidentiality for sensitive categories of records.
The sponsor said records involving minor students created by school resource officers or law-enforcement officers, personally identifiable information on crash reports, automatic license-plate-reader data (GPS coordinates, date/time, photos and plate numbers), information about federal law-enforcement operations, and certain body-camera footage (minors in schools, video inside health-care institutions or private homes) should remain exempt without a sunset. "So those are the 5," the sponsor said, asking the committee to vote. Representative Celenza asked the sponsor to list the exceptions; committee members exchanged follow-up questions about existing statute and enforcement. The clerk recorded 3 ayes and 1 no and the bill was moved to the full committee.
