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Families urge creation of dedicated TBI cold‑case unit; committee forwards the bill
Summary
Relatives of long‑unsolved missing‑person cases asked the committee to create a multi‑agent TBI cold‑case unit. Sponsor said the bill would fund five positions and a director to give families continuity and investigative capacity; the committee advanced the measure to Finance, Ways & Means.
Representative Salinas presented HB 2,606 to create a TBI cold‑case unit of five agents and a director; he said TBI helped develop the proposal and families from across Tennessee supported it. "This bill is...simple. It would create a department of cold cases under TBI," the sponsor said, adding the unit responds to structural staffing shortages that leave families conducting their own inquiries.
Two family members recounted decades of unresolved loss. Casey Robinson said multiple families asked the committee to stop letting cases "sit at the local level for years where agencies simply don't have the manpower or funding to investigate older cases." Johnny Carter, mother of a missing child, described repeatedly pressing leads and the toll of unresolved cases. The committee voted to advance HB 2,606 to Finance, Ways & Means (clerk recorded 17 ayes, 0 nos).
