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The bill’s introduction follows WPLN and ProPublica reporting that found the state’s lax gun laws and enforcement allow firearms to remain in the hands of abusers, some of whom have gone on to shoot and harm or kill their victims.

https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-guns-dispossession-domestic-violence?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

The Nashville school shooter previously pulled a knife on another student. He returned to school after a two-day suspension.

“He had a whole knife in school, and he didn’t get expelled,” the victim said. “It just doesn’t sit right with me.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/nashville-school-shooter-previous-threats?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Tennessee House and Senate decide that handouts to wealthy families are worth blowing up the budget.

#Tennessee #vouchers
https://tennesseelookout.com/2025/01/30/tennessee-legislature-puts-hundreds-of-millions-toward-private-school-vouchers/

How Many Students Have Been Expelled Under Tennessee’s School Threats Law? There’s No Clear Answer.
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Tennessee gives public agencies wide latitude to refuse to release data. That made it challenging for our reporters to figure out just how many students were affected.

https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-school-threat-law-expulsions-data?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

The Tennessee Department of Correction has made it much harder for prisoners in Tennessee to obtain books. Learn more in this #WPLN story by #CharDaston.

https://wpln.org/post/how-tennessee-quietly-made-it-harder-for-prisoners-to-access-books/

Tennessee is following in the footsteps of other states that haven't outright banned books, but have banned so many VENDORS of books that it becomes very hard for incarcerated people to obtain the books they wish to read.

Two Families Sue After 11-Year-Old and 13-Year-Old Students Were Arrested Under Tennessee’s School Threat Law
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The lawsuits, filed in federal court this month, argue East Tennessee school officials violated students’ rights by calling the police on them under Tennessee’s threats of mass violence law.

#News #Tennessee #School #Education #Law #Lawsuit

https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-school-threats-law-lawsuits?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Tennessee has one of the highest rates of women killed by men, and most of those homicides are committed with guns.

One rural county is taking steps to try to ensure that abusers don’t have access to firearms.

(Published Aug.)
https://propub.li/3DHPfid

2024/12/25 Media Summary #crosspost
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A 13-Year-Old With #Autism Got Arrested After His Backpack Sparked Fear. Only His Stuffed Bunny Was Inside.
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#Disability rights advocates said #kids like Ty should not be getting arrested under Tennessee’s #school threats law. And they tried to push for a broader exception for kids with other kinds of disabilities. It didn’t work.

#News #Tennessee #DisabilityRights #Education #Students #Police #Law

https://propub.li/3O6tkU1

An 11-Year-Old Denied Making a Threat and Was Allowed to Return to #School. #Tennessee Police Arrested Him Anyway.

A state law makes threats of mass violence at school a felony, even if they’re not credible.

Judges and school officials say the law unnecessarily traumatizes kids.

#News #Kids #Schools #Education #Guns #GunViolence #Families #Law #Government #Police

https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-school-threat-law-kids-arrested

#Tennessee #factory under #investigation after 11 #workers missing who were #working a shift during #hurricane #Helene
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/05/us/tennessee-impact-plastics-factory-helene/index.html

Medical Examiner, Whose Testimony Helped Convict a Man in 2004 of Killing His Baby, Now Says He Was Wrong
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The former Nashville medical examiner has recanted his testimony that Russell Maze’s son had died of shaken baby syndrome, joining the DA’s office in now saying a crime never occurred. Yet Maze could still spend the rest of his life in prison.

#Nashville #Tennessee #News #Crime #CriminalJustice #Courts #Law #Police #CivilRights #Science #TrueCrime #Prison

https://www.propublica.org/article/russell-maze-nashville-medical-examiner-recants-testimony