TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Julia Wilburn on Jun 9, 2023

Gov. Bill Lee recently signed a bill that gives dozens of people a chance to be removed from the Tennessee Sex Offender Registry due to a decades-old law regarding HIV exposure. ABC24 in Memphis reports that the bill amends the current law — where potentially exposing someone to HIV was a felony and required people to register as sex offenders — removing the sex offender registry requirement for people convicted of criminal exposure. People will qualify for removal if they do not have any other sex offenses on their record, although there is no clear timeline for how quickly names will be removed.