Tennessee is Excluding sex workers It removed people with HIV from the sex offender registry following two lawsuits that argued state law doesn’t take into account scientific advances about the spread and prevention of HIV. Chattanooga Times Free Press.
Under the state’s decades-old law, prostitution was a misdemeanor for the vast majority of sex workers. HIV positive.
According to the lawsuit, 83 state residents were registered with felony prostitution charges, a classification that imposes restrictions on their housing, employment and relationships with underage relatives.
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“Plaintiffs argue that felony prostitution laws are rooted in fear and discrimination, targeting people with HIV, imposing harsh penalties and forcing them to register for life as ‘violent sex offenders,'” the ACLU said in a statement. October Press Release When the lawsuit was filed, he said: “Criminalizing people with HIV is clearly unlawful because it contradicts evidence-based best practice and subjects only those with HIV, a protected disability, to harsher penalties.”
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee (R-Tenn.) said the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is currently erroneously Sex Offender Registration Trafficking victims have been able to have their records expunged after the law was changed earlier this year.
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee speaks onstage during day two of the Republican National Convention at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 16, 2024. (Photo by Andrew Harnick/Getty Images)
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Fox News Digital has reached out to the Attorney General’s office with questions about the lawsuit.
“The state Legislature recently amended the sex offender registration statute to remove aggravated prostitution from the list of crimes requiring registration,” Public Affairs Director Amy Lannom-Wilhite told Fox News. “The plaintiffs agreed to drop their challenge to the registration law while the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation implements these amendments. The TBI has removed several registrants who were subject to removal under the amendments and who requested removal. However, our office continues to defend Tennessee’s prohibition on aggravated prostitution, and the litigation remains ongoing.”
