Bill aimed at reducing solicitation of traffic accidents set for hearings this week
House and Senate committees are scheduled to hear details of a bill that is aimed at reducing solicitation of victims in traffic accidents by closing information that is now open in traffic accident reports. State Rep. Jason Powell, D-Nashville, represents part of Davidson County. State Rep. Jason Powell, D-Nashville, and state Sen. Becky Massey, R-Knoxville, have filed bills that would create a new exception to the Tennessee Public Records Act and make identifying information about the participants in a traffic accident confidential. Their bill now says that the names, dates of birth, addresses, telephone numbers, driver's license numbers and insurance information on a police accident report would be [...]