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TN Code § 38-8-201 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 38 - Prevention and Detection of Crime|Chapter 8 - Employment and Training of Police Officers|Part 2 - Jerry F. Agee Tennessee Law Enforcement Training Academy|§ 38-8-201. Creation and Purpose

  There is created the Jerry F. Agee Tennessee law enforcement training academy, for the purpose of training police and law enforcement officers in the methods of maintaining law enforcement services in state, municipal, county and metropolitan jurisdictions.   In addition to attendance by law enforcement officers at the academy, students pursuing a degree with a major in law enforcement, criminal justice, or police science in a college or university of this state, and former members of the military who have been honorably discharged and who served a minimum of three (3) years' full-time service in the military, shall also be eligible for enrollment and training, the same as if the students and former members of the military were law enforcement officers in the academy. The students and former military members shall also meet the requirements set forth in § 38-8-106 and the standards established by the peace officer standards and training commission as required for law enforcement officers attending the academy.   The academy shall also have the authority to provide specialized training to other government or private sector employees whose work impacts public safety, such as court officials, emergency services personnel, process servers, hospital personnel and employees of the criminal justice system. It is the intent of the general assembly that the training be provided at no additional cost to the state. The director of the academy shall have full discretion in scheduling any additional training sessions offered by the academy; provided, that the training of state or local governmental law enforcement employees be given priority over private employee training.
TN Code § 38-8-202 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 38 - Prevention and Detection of Crime|Chapter 8 - Employment and Training of Police Officers|Part 2 - Jerry F. Agee Tennessee Law Enforcement Training Academy|§ 38-8-202. State Building Commission to Acquire Site and Build and Equip Facility

  The state building commission is authorized and empowered to acquire a site or sites and to construct a suitable building or buildings for conducting the programs of the academy.   The commission is authorized to accept from any agency or department of state or local government a site or building by gift or donation, and in such event, may expend any capital outlay funds available for the restoration, renovation, repair and equipping of such facility.
TN Code § 38-8-203 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 38 - Prevention and Detection of Crime|Chapter 8 - Employment and Training of Police Officers|Part 2 - Jerry F. Agee Tennessee Law Enforcement Training Academy|§ 38-8-203. Control — Personnel — Fees

  The police and law enforcement programs offered through the academy shall be under the jurisdiction of such agency or agencies of the state of Tennessee as the governor shall designate by executive order. The commissioner of the agency appointed pursuant to executive order shall hire the director of the academy. The director, subject to approval of the appropriate state officials, is authorized to employ any personnel that may be reasonably required.   The academy may charge reasonable fees to cover costs of any food, lodging, instructional materials, equipment or services furnished trainees as may be established by the appropriate state officials.
TN Code § 38-8-204 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 38 - Prevention and Detection of Crime|Chapter 8 - Employment and Training of Police Officers|Part 2 - Jerry F. Agee Tennessee Law Enforcement Training Academy|§ 38-8-204. Authorization to Contract With Units of Government

  The agency designated by the governor to operate the academy, through its duly appointed representative, is authorized to enter into such contract or contracts with state, municipal, county or metropolitan law enforcement officials as may be necessary in order to carry out the provisions and purposes of this chapter.   The power to contract conferred by this section includes the power to contract with public agencies or officials for enrolling trainees in general courses, and establishing special courses designed to meet specific needs of agencies or units of government.
TN Code § 38-8-205 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 38 - Prevention and Detection of Crime|Chapter 8 - Employment and Training of Police Officers|Part 2 - Jerry F. Agee Tennessee Law Enforcement Training Academy|§ 38-8-205. Authorization to Spend Appropriated and Contributed Funds

 The agency designated by the governor to operate the academy, through its duly appointed representative, is authorized to expend such funds as may be appropriated by the general assembly and allotted by the commissioner of finance and administration for the purposes of this chapter; and to accept and expend any local, federal or foundation funds or contributions as may be received and allotted for the purposes of this part.
TN Code § 38-8-206 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 38 - Prevention and Detection of Crime|Chapter 8 - Employment and Training of Police Officers|Part 2 - Jerry F. Agee Tennessee Law Enforcement Training Academy|§ 38-8-206. Consultations With Law Enforcement Officials

 In the establishment and operation of the academy, the state building commission and the designated agency for operation shall consult and advise with both state and local law enforcement officials, including, but not limited to, the departments of safety and correction, the wildlife resources agency, the district attorneys general, and local officials including representatives of municipal and county law enforcement agencies and with such educational agencies as may be deemed advisable.
TN Code § 38-8-207 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 38 - Prevention and Detection of Crime|Chapter 8 - Employment and Training of Police Officers|Part 2 - Jerry F. Agee Tennessee Law Enforcement Training Academy|§ 38-8-207. On the Job Experience for Institute Instructors

  It is the policy of this section to provide continuing on the job experience for instructors of the academy so that the instructors are made continually aware of the problems of and procedures within law enforcement agencies.   The commissioner of commerce and insurance may, in the commissioner's discretion, commission the director of the academy as a law enforcement officer or commission any instructor at the academy as a law enforcement officer on the written recommendation to the commissioner by the director. Any person who is commissioned pursuant to this subsection (b) shall be sworn according to the provisions of §§ 8-8-101 and 8-18-111.   Upon the request of the chief official of any law enforcement agency of the state, a county, or a municipality, the director may designate one (1) or more of the commissioned instructors at the academy to assist the agency in its law enforcement role. In designating the instructors to a law enforcement agency, the director shall consider the need for actual law enforcement experience of the instructors and the availability of the instructors to the requesting agency.   An instructor, when designated to an agency, will be required to be bonded in the manner and amount provided by law for the capacity in which the instructor shall serve.   An instructor, when designated, shall serve under the supervision of the chief official of the agency in which the instructor is serving.   An instructor, when designated, shall receive no compensation other than that to which the instructor is entitled as an instructor at the academy.
TN Code § 38-8-301 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 38 - Prevention and Detection of Crime|Chapter 8 - Employment and Training of Police Officers|Part 3 - Investigations of Police Officers|§ 38-8-301. Part Definitions

 As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:   “Agency” means any municipality or county; and   “Police officer” means police officer as defined by law; however, this part shall exclude chiefs of police and sheriffs and any probationary member of any agency affected by this part.
TN Code § 38-8-302 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 38 - Prevention and Detection of Crime|Chapter 8 - Employment and Training of Police Officers|Part 3 - Investigations of Police Officers|§ 38-8-302. Questioning — Information Provided to Officer Being Questioned

 Whenever an investigation by an agency focuses on matters that are likely to lead to the dismissal, demotion, suspension or transfer for punitive reasons of a police officer, the following conditions shall be complied with:   Any questioning of the officer shall take place at a reasonable time and place as designated by the investigating officer, preferably when the officer under investigation is on duty and at the office of the command of the investigating officer or at the office of the local precinct or police unit of the officer being investigated, unless circumstances dictate otherwise; and   Prior to being questioned, the officer shall be informed of:  The name and rank of the investigating officer and of any individual present during the questioning; and   The nature of the investigation.
TN Code § 38-8-303 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 38 - Prevention and Detection of Crime|Chapter 8 - Employment and Training of Police Officers|Part 3 - Investigations of Police Officers|§ 38-8-303. Disclosures by Officers

 No police officer shall be required or requested to disclose any item of property, income, assets, source of income, debts, or personal or domestic expenditures, including those of any member of the officer's family or household, unless such information is necessary in investigating a possible conflict of interest with respect to the performance of the officer's official duties, unless such disclosure is required by law, or unless such information is related to an investigation. Nothing in this section shall preclude an agency from requiring such police officer to disclose any place of off-duty employment and where the officer may be contacted.
TN Code § 38-8-304 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 38 - Prevention and Detection of Crime|Chapter 8 - Employment and Training of Police Officers|Part 3 - Investigations of Police Officers|§ 38-8-304. Officer Notified of Charges and Sanctions — Opportunity to Respond — Counsel

 Before any dismissal, demotion, suspension without pay or transfer for punitive reasons may be imposed, the following must be complied with:   The police officer shall be notified in writing of all charges, the basis for the charges, and the action that may be taken;   The police officer shall be given an opportunity, within a reasonable time limit after the date of the written notice provided for in subdivision (1), to respond orally and in writing to the charges. The time limit shall be determined by the agency, but in no event shall it be less than five (5) calendar days unless agreed to by the police officer; and   In making a response, the police officer may be assisted by counsel at the officer's own expense.
TN Code § 38-8-305 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 38 - Prevention and Detection of Crime|Chapter 8 - Employment and Training of Police Officers|Part 3 - Investigations of Police Officers|§ 38-8-305. Proceedings Subsequent to Disciplinary Action — Hearings — Evidence — Witnesses — Counsel — Record

  A police officer who is dismissed, demoted, suspended or transferred for punitive reasons, may within a reasonable amount of time following such action, as set by the officer's agency, request a hearing. If such request is made in a timely manner, a hearing shall be held within a reasonable amount of time set by the agency. The hearing shall be set no later than fourteen (14) calendar days following the date of request, unless a later date is acceptable to the police officer.   At the hearing, the police officer and the officer's agency shall be afforded the opportunity to present evidence and to examine and cross-examine witnesses.   The hearing panel shall have the power to, and on the request of either the police officer or the officer's agency shall, issue subpoenas requiring the testimony of witnesses who have refused or failed to appear at the hearing.   The police officer shall also be given the opportunity to be represented by counsel at the hearing, unless such officer and agency are afforded, by regulation, the right to counsel in a subsequent de novo hearing.   The panel conducting the hearing shall rule on the admissibility of the evidence.   A record shall be made of the hearing.
TN Code § 38-8-306 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 38 - Prevention and Detection of Crime|Chapter 8 - Employment and Training of Police Officers|Part 3 - Investigations of Police Officers|§ 38-8-306. Suspension of Officers

 Nothing in this part shall prevent the immediate suspension without pay of any police officer whose continued presence on the job is deemed to be a substantial and immediate threat to the welfare of the officer's agency or the public, nor shall anything in this part prevent the suspension of a police officer for refusing to obey a direct order issued in conformance with the agency's written and disseminated rules and regulations. In such case, the police officer shall, upon request, be afforded the rights provided for under this part within a reasonable amount of time set by the agency.
TN Code § 38-8-307 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 38 - Prevention and Detection of Crime|Chapter 8 - Employment and Training of Police Officers|Part 3 - Investigations of Police Officers|§ 38-8-307. Minor Infractions

 Nothing in this part shall be construed to prohibit the informal counseling of a police officer by a supervisor in reference to a minor infraction of policy or procedure that does not result in disciplinary action being taken against the police officer.
TN Code § 38-8-308 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 38 - Prevention and Detection of Crime|Chapter 8 - Employment and Training of Police Officers|Part 3 - Investigations of Police Officers|§ 38-8-308. Rights Deemed Minimum Rights — Agency Grievance Procedures — Additional Rights

 The rights accorded police officers in this part shall be minimum rights and all agencies shall promulgate grievance procedures not inconsistent with this part. Any agency may provide for the rights of police officers in addition to this part.
TN Code § 38-8-309 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 38 - Prevention and Detection of Crime|Chapter 8 - Employment and Training of Police Officers|Part 3 - Investigations of Police Officers|§ 38-8-309. Applicability of Part

 This part shall apply only to those agencies that now provide a property interest in employment for their police officers and that have no other established procedures for dealing with the dismissal, demotion, suspension or transfer for punitive reasons of police officers.
TN Code § 38-8-310 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 38 - Prevention and Detection of Crime|Chapter 8 - Employment and Training of Police Officers|Part 3 - Investigations of Police Officers|§ 38-8-310. Political Activity

 No law enforcement officer, including any member of the Tennessee highway patrol, shall engage in political activity, support or opposition to any candidate, party or measure in any election when on duty or acting in the officer's or member's official capacity. When off duty and acting as a private citizen, no officer, including any member of the Tennessee highway patrol, shall be prohibited from engaging in political activity or denied the right to refrain from engaging in the activity.
TN Code § 38-8-311 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 38 - Prevention and Detection of Crime|Chapter 8 - Employment and Training of Police Officers|Part 3 - Investigations of Police Officers|§ 38-8-311. Investigative Record of Officer-Involved Shooting Death

  After completion of an investigation into an officer-involved shooting death by the Tennessee bureau of investigation and after the completion of the prosecutorial function by the district attorney general, notwithstanding § 10-7-504 to the contrary, the investigative record of the incident shall become a public record pursuant to title 10, chapter 7. Notwithstanding § 10-7-504, the district attorney general may disclose all or part of the investigative record to the public prior to the record becoming a public record as provided in this section.   For purposes of this section, “officer-involved shooting death” means a death that results from a shooting by a law enforcement officer that occurs while the officer is on-duty or is off-duty while performing activities that are within the scope of the law enforcement officer's duties.
TN Code § 38-8-312 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 38 - Prevention and Detection of Crime|Chapter 8 - Employment and Training of Police Officers|Part 3 - Investigations of Police Officers|§ 38-8-312. Community Oversight Board

  The authority of a community oversight board shall be limited to the review and consideration of matters reported to the board and the issuance of advisory reports and recommendations to the duly elected or appointed officials of the agencies involved in public safety and the administration of justice within the jurisdiction for which the community oversight board is established.    A community oversight board does not have the power to issue subpoenas for documents or to compel witness testimony.   This subsection (b) does not prohibit the issuance of a subpoena by a local legislative body as otherwise provided by law.   A subpoena issued by a local legislative body, on behalf of a community oversight board, must:  Be issued pursuant to majority vote of the local legislative body;   Not be issued in the form of a blanket authorization, but must specify each document to be produced or witness to testify; and   Not be issued for documents that are confidential under § 10-7-504.       Any employee or member of a community oversight board must be a registered voter, as defined by § 2-1-104(a)(24), of the jurisdiction for which the community oversight board is established.   A community oversight board shall not restrict or otherwise limit membership based upon demographics, economic status, or employment history.   Any document provided to a community oversight board that is confidential under § 10-7-504 or any other law shall be treated as confidential and shall not be released to the public.   By February 1 of each year, a community oversight board shall submit a report to the chairs of the judiciary committees of the house of representatives and senate, including, but not limited to, the following information for the previous calendar year:  The number and nature of matters reported to the board;   The number and nature of reviews conducted by the board; and   The number and nature of advisory reports and recommendations issued by the board.     As used in this section:  “Community oversight board” means a board or committee established by a local government to investigate or oversee investigation into possible law enforcement officer misconduct or the operations of an agency employing a law enforcement officer; and   “Law enforcement officer” has the same meaning as defined in § 39-11-106.
TN Code § 39-11-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 39 - Criminal Offenses|Chapter 11 - General Provisions|Part 1 - Construction|§ 39-11-101. Objectives of Criminal Code

 The general objectives of the criminal code are to:   Proscribe and prevent conduct that unjustifiably and inexcusably causes or threatens harm to individual, property, or public interest for which protection through the criminal law is appropriate;   Give fair warning of what conduct is prohibited, and guide the exercise of official discretion in law enforcement, by defining the act and the culpable mental state that together constitute an offense;   Give fair warning of the consequences of violation, and guide the exercise of official discretion in punishment, by grading of offenses; and   Prescribe penalties that are proportionate to the seriousness of the offense.
TN Code § 39-11-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 39 - Criminal Offenses|Chapter 11 - General Provisions|Part 1 - Construction|§ 39-11-102. Effect of Criminal Code

  Conduct does not constitute an offense unless it is defined as an offense by statute, municipal ordinance, or rule authorized by and lawfully adopted under a statute.   Parts 1-6 of this chapter apply to offenses defined by other laws, unless otherwise provided by law.   This title does not bar, suspend, or otherwise affect any right or liability to damages, penalty, forfeiture, or other remedy authorized by law to be recovered or enforced in a civil suit for conduct the criminal code defines as an offense, and the civil injury is not merged into the offense.
TN Code § 39-11-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 39 - Criminal Offenses|Chapter 11 - General Provisions|Part 1 - Construction|§ 39-11-103. Territorial Jurisdiction

  Every person, whether an inhabitant of this or any other state or country, is liable to punishment by the laws of this state, for an offense committed in this state, except where it is by law cognizable exclusively in the courts of the United States.    When an offense is commenced outside of this state and consummated in this state, the person committing the offense is liable for punishment in this state in the county in which the offense was consummated, unless otherwise provided by statute.   It is no defense that the person charged with the offense was outside of this state when the offense was consummated, if the person used:  An innocent or guilty agent; or   Other means proceeding directly from the person.       When the commission of an offense commenced within this state is consummated outside of its boundaries, the offender is liable to punishment in this state in the county where the offense was commenced.   If one (1) or more elements of an offense are committed in one (1) county and one (1) or more elements in another, the offense may be prosecuted in either county. Offenses committed on the boundary of two (2) or more counties may be prosecuted in either county.
TN Code § 39-11-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 39 - Criminal Offenses|Chapter 11 - General Provisions|Part 1 - Construction|§ 39-11-104. Construction of Criminal Code

 This title shall be construed according to the fair import of its terms, including reference to judicial decisions and common law interpretations, to promote justice, and effect the objectives of the criminal code.
TN Code § 39-11-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 39 - Criminal Offenses|Chapter 11 - General Provisions|Part 1 - Construction|§ 39-11-105. Computation of Age

 A person attains a specified age on the day of the anniversary of the person's birthdate.
TN Code § 39-11-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 39 - Criminal Offenses|Chapter 11 - General Provisions|Part 1 - Construction|§ 39-11-110. Felonies and Misdemeanors Distinguished

 All violations of law that may be punished by one (1) year or more of confinement or by the infliction of the death penalty are denominated felonies, and all violations of law punishable by fine or confinement for less than one (1) year, or both, are denominated misdemeanors.
TN Code § 39-11-111 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 39 - Criminal Offenses|Chapter 11 - General Provisions|Part 1 - Construction|§ 39-11-111. Prohibited Act When No Penalty Prescribed Is Misdemeanor

 When the performance or nonperformance of any act is made criminal by statute, and no penalty, punishment or forfeiture for the violation of that statute is imposed, the doing of the act is a misdemeanor.
TN Code § 39-11-113 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 39 - Criminal Offenses|Chapter 11 - General Provisions|Part 1 - Construction|§ 39-11-113. Penalty for Felony Where Punishment Not Prescribed

 Every person who is convicted of a felony, the punishment for which is not otherwise prescribed by a statute of this state, shall be sentenced as for a Class E felony.