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TN Code § 40-39-209 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 40 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 39 - Offender Registration and Monitoring|Part 2 - Tennessee Sexual Offender and Violent Sexual Offender Registration, Verification and Tracking Act of 2004|§ 40-39-209. Removing Records From Sor

 Except as otherwise provided in § 40-39-207(a)-(d), no record shall be removed from the SOR, unless ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction as part of an expunction order pursuant to § 40-32-101, so long as the offense is eligible for expunction under § 40-32-101.
TN Code § 40-39-210 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 40 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 39 - Offender Registration and Monitoring|Part 2 - Tennessee Sexual Offender and Violent Sexual Offender Registration, Verification and Tracking Act of 2004|§ 40-39-210. Death of Offender

 Upon receipt of notice of the death of a registered offender, verified through the registering agency or TBI officials by obtaining a copy of the offender's certificate of death, by checking the social security death index or by obtaining a copy of an accident report, the TBI shall remove all data pertaining to the deceased offender from the SOR.
TN Code § 40-39-212 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 40 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 39 - Offender Registration and Monitoring|Part 2 - Tennessee Sexual Offender and Violent Sexual Offender Registration, Verification and Tracking Act of 2004|§ 40-39-212. Registration Requirement

  Upon the court's acceptance of a defendant's entry of a plea of guilty or a finding of guilt by a jury or judge after trial, and, notwithstanding the absence of a final sentencing and entry of a judgment of conviction, any defendant who is employed or practices a vocation, establishes a primary or secondary residence or becomes a student in this state and who enters a plea of guilty to a sexual offense as defined by § 40-39-202 or a violent sexual offense as defined by § 40-39-202, shall be required to register with a registering agency.   Notwithstanding the absence of a final sentencing and entry of a judgment of conviction, any defendant who is employed or practices a vocation, establishes a primary or secondary residence or becomes a student in this state and who enters a plea of guilty to an offense in another state, county or jurisdiction that may result in a conviction of a sexual offense as defined by § 40-39-202 or a violent sexual offense as defined by § 40-39-202, shall be required to register with a registering agency.   Upon the court's acceptance of a defendant's entry of a plea of guilty, and notwithstanding the absence of a final sentencing and entry of a judgment of conviction, any defendant from another state who enters a plea of guilty to an offense in this state that may result in a conviction of a sexual offense as defined by § 40-39-202 or a violent sexual offense as defined by § 40-39-202, shall be required to register with a registering agency.   This part shall apply to offenders who received diversion under § 40-35-313 or its equivalent in any other jurisdiction.
TN Code § 40-39-213 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 40 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 39 - Offender Registration and Monitoring|Part 2 - Tennessee Sexual Offender and Violent Sexual Offender Registration, Verification and Tracking Act of 2004|§ 40-39-213. Possession of Offender Identification Required

  Every offender required to register pursuant to this part who is a resident of this state, and who is eligible, shall be responsible for obtaining a valid driver license or photo identification card that has been properly designated by the department of safety pursuant to § 55-50-353. Every offender eligible to receive the license or identification card shall always have the license or identification card in the offender's possession. If the offender is ineligible to be issued a driver license or photo identification card, the department shall provide the offender some other form of identification card or documentation that, if it is kept in the offender's possession, will satisfy the requirements of this section and § 55-50-353; such identification must be kept in the offender's possession at all times. If any offender is determined to be indigent, an identification card or other documentation in lieu of an identification card shall be issued to the offender at no cost.   A violation of this section is a Class E felony punishable by fine only of not less than two hundred fifty dollars ($250).   Every offender required to register pursuant to this part shall have obtained the documentation required by this section and presented it to the offender's registering agency no later than sixty (60) days from the date in which such person is required to register pursuant to this part.   Notwithstanding any provision of this section to the contrary, no violent juvenile sexual offender shall be required to obtain a photo identification card or a valid driver license that has been properly designated by the department of safety pursuant to § 55-50-353, until such violent juvenile sexual offender attains eighteen (18) years of age.
TN Code § 40-39-214 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 40 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 39 - Offender Registration and Monitoring|Part 2 - Tennessee Sexual Offender and Violent Sexual Offender Registration, Verification and Tracking Act of 2004|§ 40-39-214. Providing Information in Registry

  Except as provided in subsection (c), immediately after an offender registers or updates a registration, TBI shall provide all information in the registry about the offender that is made public pursuant to § 40-39-206(d) to the following:  The United States attorney general, who shall include that information in the national sex offender registry or other appropriate databases;   Appropriate law enforcement agencies, including probation and parole offices, and each school and public housing agency, in each area in which the individual resides, is an employee, establishes a physical presence or is a student;   Each jurisdiction where the sex offender resides, is an employee, establishes a physical presence or is a student and each jurisdiction from or to which a change of residence, employment or student status occurs;   Any agency responsible for conducting employment-related background checks;   Social service entities responsible for protecting minors in the child welfare system;   Volunteer organizations in which contact with minors or other vulnerable individuals might occur; and   Any organization, company or individual who requests such notifications pursuant to procedures established by TBI.     In addition to the information provided pursuant to subsection (a), TBI shall provide all information in the registry about the offender, regardless of whether the information is made public pursuant to § 40-39-206(d), to the organization described in subdivision (a)(1) and appropriate law enforcement agencies.   Notwithstanding subsection (a), TBI is not required to provide information to an organization or individual described in subdivision (a)(6) or (a)(7) more frequently than once every five (5) business days and an organization in subdivision (a)(6) or (a)(7) may elect to receive notification less frequently than five (5) business days.
TN Code § 40-39-215 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 40 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 39 - Offender Registration and Monitoring|Part 2 - Tennessee Sexual Offender and Violent Sexual Offender Registration, Verification and Tracking Act of 2004|§ 40-39-215. Offenses — Sexual Offenders, Violent Sexual Offenders, or Violent Juvenile Sexual Offenders — Defense

  While mandated to comply with the requirements of this chapter, it is an offense for a sexual offender, violent sexual offender or a violent juvenile sexual offender, as those terms are defined in § 40-39-202, whose victim was a minor, to knowingly:  Pretend to be, dress as, impersonate or otherwise assume the identity of a real or fictional person or character or a member of a profession, vocation or occupation while in the presence of a minor or with the intent to attract or entice a minor to be in the presence of the offender;   Engage in employment, a profession, occupation or vocation, regardless of whether compensation is received, that the offender knows or should know will cause the offender to be in direct and unsupervised contact with a minor; or   Operate, whether authorized to do so or not, any vehicle or specific type of vehicle, including, but not limited to, an ice cream truck or emergency vehicle, for the purpose of attracting or enticing a minor to be in the presence of the offender.     It is a defense to a violation of this section that the offender was the parent of the minor in the offender's presence.   A violation of this section is a Class A misdemeanor.
TN Code § 40-39-216 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 40 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 39 - Offender Registration and Monitoring|Part 2 - Tennessee Sexual Offender and Violent Sexual Offender Registration, Verification and Tracking Act of 2004|§ 40-39-216. Restricting Access to Public Library

  Public library boards shall have the authority to reasonably restrict the access of any person listed on the sexual offender registry. Such authority may be delegated by the board to a library administrator.   In determining the reasonableness of the restrictions, the board shall consider the following criteria:  The likelihood of children being present in the library at the times and places to be restricted;   The age of the victim of the offender; and   The chilling effect of the use of the library by other patrons if the offender is not restricted.     Nothing in this section shall prevent the board from imposing a total ban of the offender's access to a public library so long as the criteria in subsection (b) are considered.   The restrictions of this section shall be effective upon the mailing of notice to the address of the offender as listed on the sexual offender registry. The notice shall state with specificity, the time and space restrictions. The board, or if so delegated, the library administrator, shall state in the notice that the criteria in subsection (b) have been considered.   A registered sex offender who enters upon the premises of a public library in contravention of the restrictions five (5) days after mailing of the notice may, at the discretion of the library administrator, be prosecuted for criminal trespass pursuant to § 39-14-405.
TN Code § 40-39-217 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 40 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 39 - Offender Registration and Monitoring|Part 2 - Tennessee Sexual Offender and Violent Sexual Offender Registration, Verification and Tracking Act of 2004|§ 40-39-217. Community Notification System

   Any county, metropolitan form of government or municipality may, by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the legislative body, choose to establish a community notification system whereby certain residences, schools and child-care facilities within the county, metropolitan form of government or municipality are notified when a person required to register pursuant to this part as a sexual offender or violent sexual offender resides, intends to reside, or, upon registration, declares to reside within a certain distance of such residences, schools and child-care facilities.   The legislative body of any county, metropolitan form of government or municipality that enacts a community notification system pursuant to this subsection (a) may, at the same time as the system is established, enact a notification fee of not more than fifty dollars ($50.00) per year from each offender in the county, metropolitan form of government or municipality for the purpose of defraying the costs of the community notification. The notification fee shall be collected at the same time as the one-hundred-fifty-dollar administrative fee collected pursuant to § 40-39-204(b).     Forms of notification a county, metropolitan form of government or municipality may elect to establish include:  Notification by the sheriff's office or police department to residents, schools and child-care facilities located within a specified number of feet from the offender's residence;   A community notification flyer, whether made by regular mail or hand delivered, to all legal residences within the specified area;   Posting a copy of the notice in a prominent place at the office of the sheriff and at the police station closest to the declared residence of the offender;   Publicizing the notice in a local newspaper, or posting electronically, including the internet;   Notifying homeowners associations within the immediate area of the declared residence of the offender; or   Any other method reasonably expected to provide notification.     Nothing in this section shall be construed as prohibiting the Tennessee bureau of investigation, a sheriff, or a chief of police from providing community notification under this section electronically or by publication or periodically to persons whose legal residence is more than the applicable distance from the residence of an offender.
TN Code § 40-39-301 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 40 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 39 - Offender Registration and Monitoring|Part 3 - Tennessee Serious and Violent Sex Offender Monitoring Pilot Project Act|§ 40-39-301. Part Definitions

 As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:   “Serious offender” means any person who is convicted in this state, on or after July 1, 2004, of any offense that may cause “serious bodily injury” as defined in § 39-11-106. “Serious offender” includes any person who is convicted in any other jurisdiction of any offense that would constitute a serious offense as defined in this part. “Serious offender” also includes any person who has been released on probation or parole following a conviction for any serious offense, as defined in this part, to the extent that the person continues to be subject to active supervision by the department of correction;   “Sexual offense” means any of the crimes enumerated in § 40-39-202(20), including specifically:  The commission of any act that constitutes the criminal offense of:   Aggravated rape, under § 39-13-502;   Rape, under § 39-13-503;   Aggravated sexual battery, under § 39-13-504;   Sexual battery, under § 39-13-505;   Statutory rape, under § 39-13-506;   Sexual exploitation of a minor, under § 39-17-1003;   Aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor, under § 39-17-1004;   Especially aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor, under § 39-17-1005;   Incest, under § 39-15-302;   Rape of a child, under § 39-13-522;   Sexual battery by an authority figure, under § 39-13-527;   Solicitation of a minor, under § 39-13-528;     Criminal attempt, under § 39-12-101, solicitation, under § 39-12-102, or conspiracy, under § 39-12-103, to commit any of the offenses enumerated within subdivision (2)(A); or   Criminal responsibility under § 39-11-402(2) for facilitating the commission under § 39-11-403 of, or being an accessory after the fact under, § 39-11-411 to any of the offenses enumerated in subdivision (2)(A); and     “Violent sexual offender” means any person who is convicted in the state, on or after July 1, 2004, of any sexual offense, as defined in subdivision (2) or § 40-39-202; or any person who is convicted in any other jurisdiction of any offense that would constitute a sexual offense in Tennessee. “Violent sexual offender” also includes any person who has been released on probation or parole following a conviction for any sexual offense, as defined in subdivision (2), to the extent that the person continues to be subject to active supervision by the department of correction as defined in law. For the purposes of this section, “violent sexual offender” may include offenders whose sexual offense was reduced by virtue of a plea agreement.
TN Code § 40-39-302 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 40 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 39 - Offender Registration and Monitoring|Part 3 - Tennessee Serious and Violent Sex Offender Monitoring Pilot Project Act|§ 40-39-302. Establishment of Program — Promulgation of Guidelines — Duties

  The department of correction is authorized to establish a serious offender and violent sexual offender monitoring program and to promulgate guidelines governing it, consistent with this part.   The department of correction shall carry out the following duties:  By December 31, 2004, in consultation with all participating state and local law enforcement, the department of correction shall develop implementing guidelines for the continuous satellite-based monitoring of serious offenders and violent sexual offenders. The system may provide:  Time-correlated and continuous tracking of the geographic location of the subject using a global positioning system based on satellite and other location tracking technology;   Reporting of subject's violations of prescriptive and proscriptive schedule or location requirements. Frequency of reporting may range from once-a-day (passive) to near real-time (active); and   An automated system that provides local and state law enforcement with alerts to compare the geographic positions of monitored subjects with reported crime incidents and whether the subject was at or near the reported crime incidents. These alerts will enable authorities to include or exclude monitored subjects from an ongoing investigation;      Prior to June 30, 2005, the department of correction shall contract with a single vendor for the hardware services needed to monitor subject offenders and correlate their movements to reported crime incidents using a system meeting the requirements described in subdivision (b)(1)(C);   The department of correction's contract with this vendor may provide for services necessary to implement or facilitate any of this part including the collection and disposition of the charges and fees provided for in this part and § 40-28-201(a)(2) and to allow for the reasonable cost of collection of the proceeds.
TN Code § 40-39-303 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 40 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 39 - Offender Registration and Monitoring|Part 3 - Tennessee Serious and Violent Sex Offender Monitoring Pilot Project Act|§ 40-39-303. Enrollment in Satellite-Based Monitoring Programs as Mandatory Condition of Release

  Notwithstanding any other law, the board of parole may require, as a mandatory condition of release for any person convicted of a sexual offense as defined in § 40-39-301, that any person so released be enrolled in a satellite-based monitoring program for the full extent of the person's term of parole, consistent with the requirements of § 40-39-302.   The board of parole may require, as a mandatory condition of release for any person convicted of a serious offense as defined in this chapter or for other offenders as the board deems appropriate, that the person be enrolled in a satellite-based monitoring program for the full extent of the person's term of parole, consistent with the requirements of § 40-39-302.   Offender participation in a location tracking and crime correlation based monitoring and supervision program under this section shall be at the discretion of the department or as mandated by the board of parole and shall conform to the participant payment requirements stated in § 40-39-305 and be based upon the person's ability to pay.   Notwithstanding any other law, the court shall require any person who is, on or after July 1, 2017, placed on probation for an offense that would qualify the person as a child rapist or a child sexual predator under § 39-13-523(a) and who does not maintain either a primary or secondary residence, to enroll in a satellite-based monitoring and supervision program for the full extent of the person's term of probation.
TN Code § 40-39-304 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 40 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 39 - Offender Registration and Monitoring|Part 3 - Tennessee Serious and Violent Sex Offender Monitoring Pilot Project Act|§ 40-39-304. Offense of Intentional Tampering With, Removal Of, or Vandalism to Device — Aiding, Abetting or Assisting

  Intentional tampering with, removal of, or vandalism to a device issued pursuant to a location tracking and crime correlation based monitoring and supervision program described in § 40-39-302 by a person duly enrolled in the program is a Class A misdemeanor for the first offense, punishable by confinement in the county jail for not less than one hundred eighty (180) days. The minimum one hundred eighty-day sentence provided for this Class A misdemeanor offense is mandatory, and no person committing the offense shall be eligible for suspension of sentence, diversion, or probation until the minimum sentence is served in its entirety. A second or subsequent violation under this section is a Class E felony. Additionally, if the person violating this section is on probation, parole or any other alternative to incarceration, then the violation shall also constitute sufficient grounds for immediate revocation of probation, parole or other alternative to incarceration. Any violation of this section shall result in the imposition of the mandatory release condition specified in § 40-39-303(a) and (b).   Any person who knowingly aids, abets, or assists a person duly enrolled in a location tracking and crime correlation based monitoring and supervision program described in § 40-39-302 in tampering with, removing or vandalizing a device issued pursuant to the program commits a Class A misdemeanor.
TN Code § 40-39-305 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 40 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 39 - Offender Registration and Monitoring|Part 3 - Tennessee Serious and Violent Sex Offender Monitoring Pilot Project Act|§ 40-39-305. Fees — Waiver of Fees

  The department of correction is authorized to assess a daily or monthly fee, as the department deems reasonable and necessary to effectuate the purposes of this program, from serious offenders and violent sexual offenders who are required by the board or the department to participate in the sexual offender monitoring program described in § 40-39-302. This fee is intended to offset only the costs associated with the time-correlated tracking of the geographic location of subjects using the location tracking crime correlation system. Fees assessed by the department pursuant to this program may be collected in accordance with § 40-39-302(b)(2)(A).   The department may waive all or any portion of the fees required by this section if it determines that an offender is indigent or financially unable to pay all or any portion of the fee. The department shall waive only that portion of the surcharge which the offender is financially unable to pay.
TN Code § 40-39-306 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 40 - Criminal Procedure|Chapter 39 - Offender Registration and Monitoring|Part 3 - Tennessee Serious and Violent Sex Offender Monitoring Pilot Project Act|§ 40-39-306. Sharing of Criminal Incident Information Across State Agencies and With Vendor — Correlation Reports

 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department of correction, the board of parole, the Tennessee bureau of investigation and all local law enforcement agencies are specifically authorized to share criminal incident information, limited to the time, place and nature of the crime, with each other and the vendor selected by the department to carry out the purposes of this part, and the department is authorized to direct the vendor so chosen to use data collected pursuant to § 40-39-302(b) in preparing correlation reports as described in that subsection for distribution to and use by state and local law enforcement agencies.