(The Center Square) – Tennessee Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson and House Speaker Cameron Sexton want to make it a state crime for public officials to release the names of immigration officers.
They filed a bill that would make revealing the names a Class E felony and allow the public official to be removed from office. The Tennessee General Assembly doesn’t go back in session until January.
Johnson and Sexton were clear in a release that the bill was aimed at Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell, who is accused of releasing the names of immigration officers who participated in a May operation that led to the arrest of 196 people. O’Connell issued an executive order requiring city employees to report contact with ICE to his office.
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