(a) The department of correction is authorized to establish a serious offender and violent sexual offender monitoring program and to promulgate guidelines governing it, consistent with this part.
Terms Used In Tennessee Code 40-39-302
Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
Serious offender: includes any person who is convicted in any other jurisdiction of any offense that would constitute a serious offense as defined in this part. See Tennessee Code 40-39-301
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
Violent sexual offender: means any person who is convicted in the state, on or after July 1, 2004, of any sexual offense, as defined in subdivision (2) or §. See Tennessee Code 40-39-301
(b) The department of correction shall carry out the following duties:
(1) By December 31, 2004, in consultation with all participating state and local law enforcement, the department of correction shall develop implementing guidelines for the continuous satellite-based monitoring of serious offenders and violent sexual offenders. The system may provide:
(A) Time-correlated and continuous tracking of the geographic location of the subject using a global positioning system based on satellite and other location tracking technology;(B) Reporting of subject’s violations of prescriptive and proscriptive schedule or location requirements. Frequency of reporting may range from once-a-day (passive) to near real-time (active); and(C) An automated system that provides local and state law enforcement with alerts to compare the geographic positions of monitored subjects with reported crime incidents and whether the subject was at or near the reported crime incidents. These alerts will enable authorities to include or exclude monitored subjects from an ongoing investigation;(2)(A) Prior to June 30, 2005, the department of correction shall contract with a single vendor for the hardware services needed to monitor subject offenders and correlate their movements to reported crime incidents using a system meeting the requirements described in subdivision (b)(1)(C);(B) The department of correction’s contract with this vendor may provide for services necessary to implement or facilitate any of this part including the collection and disposition of the charges and fees provided for in this part and § 40-28-201(a)(2) and to allow for the reasonable cost of collection of the proceeds.
