(a) All state, county, and municipal law enforcement and correctional agencies, and courts, shall submit to the director of the Tennessee bureau of investigation reports setting forth their activities in connection with law enforcement and criminal justice, including uniform crime reports and reports of law enforcement-related deaths.
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 38-10-102

  • Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(b) The Tennessee bureau of investigation shall provide to the commissioner of health and to the general assembly, by March 31 of each year, a report on all law enforcement-related deaths that occurred in the prior calendar year.
(c) The Tennessee bureau of investigation, in consultation with the department of health, has the authority to promulgate rules regarding the collection and reporting of information concerning law enforcement-related deaths, with such rules to be promulgated in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5.
(d) As used in this section, “law enforcement-related death” means:

(1) The death of an individual in custody, whether in a prison, jail, or otherwise in the custody of law enforcement, pursuant to an arrest or a transfer between institutions; or
(2) The death of an individual potentially resulting from an interaction with law enforcement, while the law enforcement officer is on duty or while the law enforcement officer is off duty but performing activities that are within the scope of the officer’s law enforcement duties, without regard to:

(A) Whether the individual was in custody; or
(B) Whether a weapon was involved.
(e) All government entities required to report under this section shall maintain a record of deaths of individuals in custody as defined in subdivision (d)(1) that is open for public inspection and that contains:

(1) The identity and age of the deceased individual;
(2) The time and date of the death; and
(3) The cause of death as determined by the county or state medical examiner pursuant to § 38-7-109.
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