§ 37-10-209. Distribution of Materials Concerning Missing Children — Solicitation of Contributions
No organization shall solicit contributions for the purpose of distributing materials containing information relating to missing children unless it complies with all of the following requirements: Such organization has been incorporated under title 48, Chapters 51 68, or the nonprofit corporation law of another state prior to the time of the solicitation of contributions, or […]
§ 37-10-204. Reports to Juvenile Court Judge — Missing Child Order
The law enforcement agency taking or making a report of a missing child shall submit its report, together with any additional data reduced to writing in the form of statements or notes, to a judge of the juvenile court within a reasonable time. The judge shall review the report and information and determine whether or […]
§ 37-10-205. Forms — File of Missing Children — Monthly Reports of Missing Children — Dissemination of Information
The Tennessee bureau of investigation shall specify a uniform form for the missing child report and data, so that the same may be transmitted by computer or mail. The bureau shall also establish, maintain and manage a file of “missing children” and collect any available relevant data concerning the missing child and disseminate the same […]
§ 37-10-206. Child Fingerprint Cards
Parents are authorized to have official fingerprint cards made for their children by taking their children to any law enforcement office or by having the same made by any private or public agency upon signing an authorization therefor. The Tennessee bureau of investigation shall deliver appropriate blank child fingerprint cards to law enforcement offices or […]
§ 37-10-207. Children’s Fingerprint Card File
The Tennessee bureau of investigation shall maintain a separate fingerprint card file for “Children”, which shall consist of the “children” fingerprint cards submitted to it pursuant to § 37-10-206, together with any latent prints believed to be children’s prints that have been submitted to it for purposes of identifying missing children. Once each year the […]
§ 37-10-208. Impact Upon Interstate Compact on Juveniles
The provisions of §§ 37-10-201 — 37-10-207 are not intended to modify any of the provisions of chapter 4 of this title relating to the Interstate Compact on Juveniles, but the documents herein authorized may be used in aid of proceedings under that chapter.
§ 37-10-201. Short Title — Part Definitions
This part shall be referred to as the “Tennessee Missing Children Recovery Act.” As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires: “Child” means any person under twenty-one (21) years of age; “Missing child” means a child who is believed to have been removed by force, persuasion, trick, enticement, false pretense, has voluntarily left […]
§ 37-10-202. Initial Missing Child Report — Statement of Identification Information
Whenever the parent knows, learns or believes that a child under the parent’s charge and care is missing, such parent shall report the child to a police or sheriff’s office, Tennessee bureau of investigation or any law enforcement officer and make a statement to the agency of all available facts that will aid in the […]
§ 37-10-203. Formal Missing Child Report — Entry of Report Into Ncic
Every law enforcement officer receiving information from a parent or any source that it deems creditable shall prepare a formal missing child report. A law enforcement agency reporting a missing child is further required to enter or cause to be entered the report of the missing child into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) within […]