Bill seeks to create confidentiality for expanded homeland security office
A bill filed this week would exempt records of Tennessee's Office of Homeland Security while another bill appears to expand the homeland security office's duties to allow it to conduct "overt and covert investigations" into a new and possibly wider list of things. Without a public interest exception to the proposed public records exemption, it's possible that the office could be deployed in more ways than it has in the past with little transparency or accountability that can come through access to public records. SB1881 / HB1640 would make all investigative records of the office confidential, even after any investigation, prosecution or criminal proceeding is finished. This is unlike the [...]
