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Bill Would Require Donor Disclosure from Nonprofits Working with DAs

Posted by: Julia Wilburn on Feb 28, 2024

A bill sponsored by Sen. Brent Taylor, R-Eads, and Rep. John Gillespie, R-Memphis seeks transparency from progressive criminal-justice reform groups that work with local district attorneys. SB2561/HB2618 would require those groups, and other nonprofits that have contracts or memoranda of understanding with prosecutors, to disclose all of their donors from the previous calendar year, reports the Daily Memphian. “These restorative-justice outfits have an outsized role in our district attorney’s office," Taylor said in a committee hearing. They "are fundamentally changing how our judicial system operates in Shelby County.” Sen. Jeff Yarbro, D-Nashville, said he supported greater transparency for nonprofits working with governments but noted that the 2021 Personal Privacy Protection Act protects donors to all nonprofits. The act says state agencies cannot “require an entity exempt from federal income tax under § 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code to provide the names or other personal information of persons who have provided financial or nonfinancial support to the exempt entity."

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