40-28-119 - Records of parolees. - Tennessee Statutes

40-28-119. Records of parolees.

(a)  The board shall cause to be kept records which may include social, physical, mental, psychiatric and criminal information for every inmate considered for or released, under its supervision. The board shall also cause to be kept the same records for every person placed on probation supervision. These records shall contain reports of probation and parole officers with relation to the probationers and parolees.

(b)  The records shall be filed in the central office of the board and shall be organized in accordance with the most modern methods of filing and indexing so there will always be immediately available information about each probationer and parolee.

(c)  The board may make rules, as it deems proper, as to the privacy of the records and of the records of its employment bureau, and their use by others than the board and its staff.

[Acts 1937, ch. 276, §§ 5, 15; C. Supp. 1950, §§ 11818.5, 11818.15 (Williams, §§ 11843.5, 11843.15); modified; Acts 1979, ch. 359, § 20; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 40-3616; Acts 1989, ch. 227, §§ 37, 38; 1998, ch. 1049, §§ 36, 37.]