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PUBLIC CHAPTER NO. 837
SENATE BILL NO. 1881
By Johnson, Bowling, Rose, Seal, White
Substituted for: House Bill No. 1640
By Lamberth, Cochran, Eldridge, Crawford, Bricken
AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 10, Chapter 7, Part 5, relative to confidentiality
of department of safety records.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 10-7-504(a)(2), is amended by adding the
following as a new subdivision:
(D)(i) The following records of the office of homeland security are confidential and are
not open to inspection by members of the public:
(a) All records possessed by the office describing protected critical
infrastructure facilities and critical infrastructure, as defined in §§ 39-13-903
and 39-14-411, 42 U.S.C. § 5195c, and 50 U.S.C. § 4552, respectively,
submitted or created for protected use regarding the security of critical
infrastructure facilities and critical infrastructure, analyses, warnings,
interdependency studies, recovery, reconstitution, or for other appropriate
purposes related to the security of critical infrastructure facilities and critical
infrastructure;
(b) All records involving the identification, analysis, prevention,
preemption, disruption, response, maintenance, and defense against and
mitigation of acts of terrorism, as defined in § 39-13-803, and criminal threats
and acts, against the critical infrastructure facilities and critical infrastructure of
this state;
(c) All records that are designated by the commissioner of safety or the
commissioner's designee as describing or relating to protected critical
infrastructure facilities and critical infrastructure;
(d) All records involving vulnerability or security assessment
information for specific locations, including, but not limited to, risk and
vulnerability assessments, penetration test results, security or emergency
response plans, schematics, floor plans, utility layouts, access control
configurations, camera placements and coverage, alarm specifications, guard-
force posture, response times, cybersecurity arch_itecture and defensive
configurations, suspicious activity reporting with identifying details, threat
streams and indicators of compromise, and other operational details that could
be used to exploit a weakness. Unless otherwise required to be confidential by
law, video footage of an alleged crime is open to public inspection; provided,
that such footage may be redacted to protect vulnerability or security
assessment information for specific locations;
(e) All records regarding specific threat information relating to acts of
terrorism, as defined in § 39-13-803, targeted violence, sabotage, or foreign
adversary activity. As used in this subdivision (a)(2)(D)(i)(e), "foreign
adversary" means a nation specified in 15 CFR 791.4;
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(f) All records involving intelligence sharing and sensitive capabilities
that are received from, produced for, or shared with a federal, state, local,
tribal, territorial, or private-sector partner that are marked, designated, or
accompanied by restrictions indicating the information is sensitive security
information, homeland security information, or otherwise restricted from public
release by the originating entity, to the extent disclosure would reveal security
capabilities, analytical tradecraft, operational methods, or specific threat
indicators; and
(g) All records regarding threats against and vulnerabilities of public
officials, political candidates, judges, prosecutors, law enforcement officers, or
other persons for whom protective operations are conducted or contemplated.
The office of homeland security shall provide an annual report to the general
assembly by January 31 of each year with the number of threats against
public officials investigated by the office in the prior year and the number of
threats that resulted in criminal charges or a prosecution.
(ii) Unless otherwise confidential by law, this subdivision (a)(2)(D) does not
prohibit the disclosure of records relating to an investigation of alleged misconduct by
a law enforcement officer, an investigation of excessive use of force, or an
investigation into a violation of department policies, practices, or standards.
(iii) Unless otherwise confidential by law, this subdivision (a)(2)(D) does not
require information to be redacted from an affidavit, warrant, charging instrument or
other judicial record.
(iv) Records of state or local costs associated with private-sector partners are
not confidential. The identity of a private-sector partner is confidential as required
under state or federal law.
(v) Unless otherwise confidential by law, the office of homeland security shall
release basic information about an arrested person, an arrest, or a crime, including
the offense description, location, time and date of the alleged crime, identification of
investigating officers, a narrative description of the incident, arrest information, and
names of involved parties.
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.
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SENATE BILL NO. 1881
PASSED: April 13, 2026
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SPEAKER OF THE SENATE
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CAMERON SEXTON, SPEAKER
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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