Tennessee Code Annotated
Tenn. Code Ann. § 40-28-119 (2026)
Records of parolees
✓ current as of May 2026
- (a) The board shall cause to be kept records which may include social, physical, mental, psychiatric and criminal information for every inmate considered for or released.
- (b) The board may make rules, as it deems proper, as to the privacy of the record and of the records of its employment bureau, and their use by others than the board and its staff.
Acts 1937, ch. 276, §§ 5, 15; C. Supp. 1950, §§ 11818.5, 11818.15 (Williams, §§ 11843.5, 11843.15); modified; Acts 1979, ch. 359, § 20; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 40-3616; Acts 1989, ch. 227, §§ 37, 38; 1998, ch. 1049, §§ 36, 37; 2012, ch. 727, § 26.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 2002–2021 · leading case: Fred Auston Wortman, III v. State of Tennessee, Tennessee Bd. of Parole (Tenn. Ct. App. 2021).
Fred Auston Wortman, III v. State of Tennessee, Tennessee Bd. of Parole (Tenn. Ct. App. 2021). “In July 2020, the Board filed a motion asserting that a portion of the administrative record was confidential pursuant to Tenn. Code Ann. §§ 40-28-119 , 40-28-504(b) and 40- 28-505(h)(1) and Tenn.”
J.D. Hickman v. Bd. of Parole (Tenn. Ct. App. 2002). “” Tenn. Code Ann. § 40-28-119 (c). The reference “such records” is to those records described in subsection (a) of Tenn.”
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