A newly proposed bill is seeking to allow records from the Tennessee Department of Tourist Development to be exempt from public records laws if the tourism commissioner and attorney general deem them “sensitive.”
The bill, sponsored by Rep. William Lamberth, R-Portland, is modeled after a similar exemption for the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development that was passed in 1988 and would keep records deemed sensitive secret for five years.
Administration officials say the bill is needed to help attract companies to Tennessee but a leading open records advocate in the state said the proposal is overly broad, lacks true accountability and could hurt transparency.
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