TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Apr 15, 2022

Four years after the General Assembly passed legislation creating a cold case office to delve into decades-old civil rights crimes, the office opened its doors in the Cordell Hull Building. The Tennessee Civil Rights Crimes, Information, Reconciliation, and Research Center is to act as a clearinghouse for information, based on requests to open cold cases from the U.S. Department of Justice, district attorneys general and the public. The center also will conduct a statewide survey of civil rights crime cold cases and direct cases for prosecution. Read more about the center’s legislative history from Tennessee Lookout.