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Law prosecuting HIV-positive sex workers won’t require sex offender registration

Nashvillians feel strongly about residential development, and a package of zoning reform bills are firing people up.

In her latest recap, @startleseasily reports on a messy meeting of the Metro Council

In her latest recap, @startleseasily reports on the Metro Councils decision to turn down a major TASER purchase for the MNPD

Checking in with Jeff Preptit, Quin Evans Segall and other newly elected members of Nashville’s legislative body

The plaintiffs say the laws are outdated and violate the Constitution and the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee has come out in support of a lawsuit that seeks to overturn a statute that increases the criminal penalty for prostitutes who have sex for money while they are knowingly HIV-positive.The Aggravated Prostitution statute from 1991 states:A person commits...

The TN statute requires people who know they have HIV and engage in sex work to register as lifetime violent sex offenders. It is a class c felony.

Tennessee’s Aggravated Prostitution statute and related sex offender registration requirements are unconstitutional and violate the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), according to a federal lawsuit filed today against the state by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Transgender Law Center, and the ACLU of Tennessee in the U.S. District Court in Memphis on behalf of four Jane Doe plaintiffs and OUTMemphis, the state’s oldest and largest service provider for LGBTQ+ peop...

Nashville resident Steve Jones explains why he thinks it was right for Nashville to accept a state grant for school resource officers.