(a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c), notwithstanding any law to the contrary, an application for a position of museum executive director, materials submitted with an application, letters of recommendation or references concerning an applicant, and any other records or information relating to or arising out of the process of searching for and selecting an individual for the position of museum executive director shall be treated as confidential and shall not be open for public inspection, if the records could be used to identify a candidate for the position.
Terms Used In Tennessee Code 4-12-113
Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(b) After a search committee has selected candidates as finalists for the position of museum executive director, the committee shall publicly announce the finalists. The announcement must occur no later than fifteen (15) calendar days before the final vote of the Douglas Henry state museum commission to appoint or elect a person to fill the position of museum executive director. Records relating exclusively to the candidates selected as finalists are not confidential and shall be open for public inspection, except for a record otherwise confidential under state or federal law.(c) This section shall not apply to information relating to a candidate who did not expressly request that the candidate’s information be kept confidential.(d) Meetings or portions of meetings devoted to discussing information deemed confidential pursuant to this section are exempt from title 8, chapter 44, part 1.(e) For the purposes of this section, “finalists” means those candidates selected by a search committee as the group to be recommended to the commission from which one (1) shall be appointed or elected museum executive director.
