Source: http://eli.ctas.tennessee.edu/reference/confidential-records
Timestamp: 2019-04-21 23:35:49+00:00

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For county governments, one important class of confidential records involves personal information of state, county, municipal, and other public employees. An employee’s home telephone and personal cell phone numbers, bank account information, health savings account information, retirement account information, pension account information, Social Security number, residential address, driver’s license information (except where driving is a part of the employee’s job), emergency contact information, and personal, non-government issued, email address are confidential. Additionally, applicants for county employment and former employees are also protected by these confidentiality provisions (as are immediate family members, whether or not the immediate family member resides with the employee, or household members of the employee). Where this confidential information is part of a file or document that would otherwise be public information, such information shall be redacted if possible so that the public may still have access to the nonconfidential portion of the file or document. T.C.A. § 10-7-504(f).
Proposals and statements of qualifications received by a local government entity in response to a personal service, professional service, or consultant service request for proposals or request for qualifications solicitation, and related records, including, but not limited to, evaluations, names of evaluation committee members, and all related memoranda or notes, are declared to be confidential, but only until the intent to award the contract to a particular respondent is announced. T.C.A. § 10-7-504(a).
Pursuant to T.C.A. § 38-7-110, all or a portion of a county medical examiner’s report, toxicological report or autopsy maybe declared confidential upon petition by the district attorney on the grounds that release of such record could impair the investigation of a homicide or felony. Additionally, 2005 Public Chapter 216 made it a criminal offense for certain audio and video materials related to an autopsy to be release to an unauthorized person.
Nursing home patient records (T.C.A. § 68-11-804).
Please note that this list only highlights some of the other provisions of the Tennessee Code that make records confidential. Additionally, the Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled that sources of legal authority other than statutes may make a record confidential. For example, the Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled that the Tennessee Rules of Criminal Procedure and Civil Procedure may also designate certain records as confidential. Other records may be sealed by a court order or made confidential by a federal statute or regulation. If you have a question regarding the confidentiality of a specific record not listed above, contact your county attorney or CTAS county government consultant for assistance.
 T.C.A. § 10-7-503(c) also addresses the subject.
 Op. Tenn. Att’y Gen. No. 99-022 (February 9, 1999).
 See Op. Tenn. Att’y Gen. No. 01-165 (September 15, 2001) for a discussion of the confidentiality of phone numbers and other identifying numbers used in the enforcement of the business tax.
 See. Appman v. Worthington, 746 S.W.2d 165, 166 (Tenn. 1987) and Ballard v. Herzke, 924 S.W.2d 652, 662 (Tenn. 1996).

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