A $1.59 million report by McKinsey & Co. on restructuring the state’s workforce is confidential and won’t be released to the public, a state agency has told The Tennessean.
The Department of Human Resources told The Tennesseean in a story published March 9 that the taxpayer-funded report was confidential, citing the department’s “deliberative process privilege.”
DHS has acknowledged to The Tennessean that it is planning employee buyouts.
The state received the McKinsey report in September.
This is not the first time the Gov. Bill Lee administration has asserted the deliberative process exemption to shield written reports. In 2019, the administration claimed they did not have to release written reports from its 22 state agencies on how to improve services to rural Tennesseans.
