Image Credit: Kelly Sikkema / UnSplash By Anita Wadhwani [Tennessee Lookout -CC BY-NC-ND 4.0] – Tennessee will participate in a Federal program designed to give parents extra cash to buy food for their children during the summer months, veering from 15 other Republican-led states that have rejected the federal dollars. The Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer for […]
Image Credit: Tennessee Bureau of Investigation & cityofathenstn.com TBI Press Release – Special agents assigned to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation’s Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force have arrested and charged an Athens man in connection to an ongoing child exploitation case. On Monday, agents received a tip from the National Center for Missing […]
Image Credit: RawPixel / Public Domain submitted by Carol Smith – According to Dr. Jamison Taylor, senior fellow at the American Family Association, the Biden administration’s newly proposed guidelines known as “The Safe and Appropriate Foster Care Placement Requirements;” may prevent children from being placed in homes of devout Christians, Jews and Muslims. Dr. Taylor […]
Image Credit: Wilson County Sheriff’s Office & Google Earth The Tennessee Conservative [By Rebecca Scott] – A former Lebanon High School teacher has finally been sentenced for crimes committed in 2015 and 2016. Michael R. Hargis was charged in 2021 and pleaded guilty in July of 2023 on charges of statutory rape by an authority […]
Image Credit: Annie Spratt / UnSplash The Tennessee Conservative [By Adelia Kirchner] – This week Rep. Ed Butler (R-Rickman-District 41) filed a bill that would effectively make it easier to funnel children away from their parents and into state custody. House Bill 1808 (HB1808) as introduced, amends Tennessee law by requiring Tennessee’s Department of Children’s […]
Image Credit: Yuri Samoilov / CC The Center Square [By Jon Styf] – Tennessee’s attorney general filed an updated and unredacted version of its lawsuit against Meta claiming the company knew its Instagram platform was harmful to young users and did not stop those harmful features. The features led young users to increased depression and […]
Image Credit: Sullivan County Sheriff’s Office & Google Earth The Tennessee Conservative [By Paula Gomes] – A Tennessee school district has settled with parents in a child abuse lawsuit. Four special education students are to receive $70 thousand each to be set aside for them after Kingsport City Schools (KCS) settled a federal lawsuit for […]
Image Credit: tn.gov The Tennessee Conservative [By Paula Gomes] – Tennessee’s State of the Child 2023 report finds crime among minors within the state is in decline, but especially in Shelby and Davidson counties. The Tennessee Commission on Children and Youth (TCCY) releases a report every year that assesses the well-being of the state’s children […]
Image Credit: RawPixel / CC The Tennessee Conservative [By Paula Gomes] – While most of the legislation that the Tennessee General Assembly passes usually goes into effect at the beginning of the state’s fiscal year, July 1st, some gets delayed to January 1st. Several new laws passed by the 113th General Assembly pertaining to public […]
Image Credit: RawPixel / Public Domain By Danielle Goodrich [Tennessee Stands / Tri-Cities Coaltion] – In March of 2021, Johnson City Commission presented a powerpoint on UNICEF Child Friendly Cities (CFC). I was watching the 2021 virtual meeting as I was there to give public comment to my concern over the continued unconstitutional COVID lockdowns […]
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