<p>This Lender Said Its Loans Would Help Tennesseans. It Has Sued More Than 110,000 of Them.<br>—</p><p>The Flex Loan, a type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial, has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. Tennessee lawmakers declined to rein in the lending business, even as other states did.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/flex-loans-tennessee-advance-financial?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/flex-loans-tennessee-advance-financial?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/fle</span><span class="invisible">x-loans-tennessee-advance-financial?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/tennessee/" rel="tag">#Tennessee</a> <a href="/tags/loans/" rel="tag">#Loans</a> <a href="/tags/finance/" rel="tag">#Finance</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/business/" rel="tag">#Business</a></p>
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<p>The bill’s introduction follows WPLN and ProPublica reporting that found the state’s lax gun laws and enforcement allow firearms to remain in the hands of abusers, some of whom have gone on to shoot and harm or kill their victims.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-guns-dispossession-domestic-violence?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-guns-dispossession-domestic-violence?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ten</span><span class="invisible">nessee-guns-dispossession-domestic-violence?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/tennessee/" rel="tag">#Tennessee</a> <a href="/tags/guns/" rel="tag">#Guns</a> <a href="/tags/domesticviolence/" rel="tag">#DomesticViolence</a> <a href="/tags/abuse/" rel="tag">#Abuse</a></p>
<p>A Tennessee School Expelled a 12-Year-Old for a Social Post. Experts Say It Didn’t Properly Assess if He Made a Threat.<br>—</p><p>The way school officials handled his case also exposes glaring contradictions in two recent state laws that aim to criminalize school threats and require schools to expel students who make them — with minimal transparency or accountability.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-school-threat-assessment-expulsion?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-school-threat-assessment-expulsion?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ten</span><span class="invisible">nessee-school-threat-assessment-expulsion?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/tennessee/" rel="tag">#Tennessee</a> <a href="/tags/school/" rel="tag">#School</a> <a href="/tags/students/" rel="tag">#Students</a> <a href="/tags/socialmedia/" rel="tag">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/parents/" rel="tag">#Parents</a></p>
<p>A Chattanooga public charter school has agreed to pay the family of an 11-year-old boy $100,000 to settle a federal lawsuit claiming that it wrongfully reported the student to police for an alleged threat of mass violence.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-school-threats-law-lawsuit-settlement?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-school-threats-law-lawsuit-settlement?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ten</span><span class="invisible">nessee-school-threats-law-lawsuit-settlement?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/tennessee/" rel="tag">#Tennessee</a> <a href="/tags/school/" rel="tag">#School</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/students/" rel="tag">#Students</a> <a href="/tags/violence/" rel="tag">#Violence</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/police/" rel="tag">#Police</a></p>
<p>A 2023 investigation by WPLN News and ProPublica found that Richard L. Bean was illegally locking kids up alone in cells.</p><p>A new scandal has forced his resignation.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/richard-l-bean-steps-down-detention-center-tennessee?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/richard-l-bean-steps-down-detention-center-tennessee?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ric</span><span class="invisible">hard-l-bean-steps-down-detention-center-tennessee?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/tennessee/" rel="tag">#Tennessee</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a> <a href="/tags/detention/" rel="tag">#Detention</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a></p>
<p>Two Families Sue After 11-Year-Old and 13-Year-Old Students Were Arrested Under Tennessee’s School Threat Law<br>—</p><p>The lawsuits, filed in federal court this month, argue East Tennessee school officials violated students’ rights by calling the police on them under Tennessee’s threats of mass violence law.</p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/tennessee/" rel="tag">#Tennessee</a> <a href="/tags/school/" rel="tag">#School</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/lawsuit/" rel="tag">#Lawsuit</a></p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-school-threats-law-lawsuits?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-school-threats-law-lawsuits?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ten</span><span class="invisible">nessee-school-threats-law-lawsuits?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p>
<p>How Many Students Have Been Expelled Under Tennessee’s School Threats Law? There’s No Clear Answer.<br>—</p><p>Tennessee gives public agencies wide latitude to refuse to release data. That made it challenging for our reporters to figure out just how many students were affected.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-school-threat-law-expulsions-data?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-school-threat-law-expulsions-data?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ten</span><span class="invisible">nessee-school-threat-law-expulsions-data?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/tennessee/" rel="tag">#Tennessee</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/school/" rel="tag">#School</a> <a href="/tags/students/" rel="tag">#Students</a> <a href="/tags/teaching/" rel="tag">#Teaching</a></p>
<p>The Nashville school shooter previously pulled a knife on another student. He returned to school after a two-day suspension.</p><p>“He had a whole knife in school, and he didn’t get expelled,” the victim said. “It just doesn’t sit right with me.”</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/nashville-school-shooter-previous-threats?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/nashville-school-shooter-previous-threats?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/nas</span><span class="invisible">hville-school-shooter-previous-threats?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/tennessee/" rel="tag">#Tennessee</a> <a href="/tags/nashville/" rel="tag">#Nashville</a> <a href="/tags/school/" rel="tag">#School</a> <a href="/tags/shooting/" rel="tag">#Shooting</a> <a href="/tags/students/" rel="tag">#Students</a> <a href="/tags/violence/" rel="tag">#Violence</a></p>
<p>Middle School Cheerleaders Made a TikTok Video Portraying a School Shooting. They Were Charged With a Crime.<br>—</p><p>Social videos, memes and retweets are becoming fodder for criminal charges in an era of heightened responses to student threats. Authorities argue harsh punishment is necessary, but experts say the crackdown won’t make schools safer.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/social-media-arrests-school-threats-law-tennessee?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/social-media-arrests-school-threats-law-tennessee?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/soc</span><span class="invisible">ial-media-arrests-school-threats-law-tennessee?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/socialmedia/" rel="tag">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/school/" rel="tag">#School</a> <a href="/tags/crime/" rel="tag">#Crime</a> <a href="/tags/police/" rel="tag">#Police</a> <a href="/tags/tennessee/" rel="tag">#Tennessee</a></p>
<p>Tennessee’s Law on School Threats Ensnared Students Who Posed No Risks. Two States Passed Similar Laws.</p><p>Despite an outcry over increased arrests in Tennessee, two states — Georgia and New Mexico — followed its lead by passing laws that will crack down harder on hoax threats.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/school-threats-laws-georgia-new-mexico?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/school-threats-laws-georgia-new-mexico?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/sch</span><span class="invisible">ool-threats-laws-georgia-new-mexico?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/georgia/" rel="tag">#Georgia</a> <a href="/tags/newmexico/" rel="tag">#NewMexico</a> <a href="/tags/tennessee/" rel="tag">#Tennessee</a> <a href="/tags/school/" rel="tag">#School</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/students/" rel="tag">#Students</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a></p>
<p>Through scandals, failed state inspections and even the illegal use of seclusion to punish children, Richard L. Bean remained in his perch as the superintendent of the juvenile detention center that bears his name.</p><p>Only three board members had the power to remove him. Yet for decades, those positions have been held down by his closest friends and allies.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/richard-l-bean-tennessee-detention-center-board?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/richard-l-bean-tennessee-detention-center-board?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ric</span><span class="invisible">hard-l-bean-tennessee-detention-center-board?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/tennessee/" rel="tag">#Tennessee</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a> <a href="/tags/criminaljustice/" rel="tag">#CriminalJustice</a> <a href="/tags/prison/" rel="tag">#Prison</a></p>
<p>More than a dozen borrowers told the Tennessee Lookout and ProPublica that Advance Financial encouraged them to borrow more money after making minimum payments.</p><p>The lender went on to sue them once they couldn’t pay back the loan.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/flex-lenders-reborrow?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/flex-lenders-reborrow?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/fle</span><span class="invisible">x-lenders-reborrow?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/tennessee/" rel="tag">#Tennessee</a> <a href="/tags/personalfinance/" rel="tag">#PersonalFinance</a> <a href="/tags/debt/" rel="tag">#Debt</a> <a href="/tags/poverty/" rel="tag">#Poverty</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a></p>
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<p>A County’s Move to Protect Domestic Violence Victims Is Spreading Across Tennessee After Legislative Delay<br>---</p><p>Judges across Tennessee are now demanding greater accountability from people who have been ordered to give up their guns, a shift aimed at strengthening protections for domestic violence victims.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-guns-dispossession-domestic-violence-impact?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-guns-dispossession-domestic-violence-impact?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ten</span><span class="invisible">nessee-guns-dispossession-domestic-violence-impact?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/tennessee/" rel="tag">#Tennessee</a> <a href="/tags/domesticviolence/" rel="tag">#DomesticViolence</a> <a href="/tags/violence/" rel="tag">#Violence</a> <a href="/tags/guns/" rel="tag">#Guns</a> <a href="/tags/safety/" rel="tag">#Safety</a> <a href="/tags/women/" rel="tag">#Women</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a></p>
<p>“I Don’t Feel Safe”: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force<br>---</p><p>A pastor was pulled over for looking lost. A 72-year-old was marched out in his bathrobe due to mistaken identity. Memphis’ mayor welcomed the federal law enforcement surge, but some residents say they feel targeted just going about their lives.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/memphis-safe-task-force-police-harassment?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/memphis-safe-task-force-police-harassment?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/mem</span><span class="invisible">phis-safe-task-force-police-harassment?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/memphis/" rel="tag">#Memphis</a> <a href="/tags/tennessee/" rel="tag">#Tennessee</a> <a href="/tags/nationalguard/" rel="tag">#NationalGuard</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/police/" rel="tag">#Police</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a></p>
<p>Appeals Court Upholds Shaken Baby Conviction Despite Medical Examiner Recanting Testimony<br>---</p><p>Dissenting from the court's majority, one judge sounded the alarm about ignoring recanted forensic testimony, saying the medical examiner's reversal "calls into doubt the foundation of the trial."<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-russell-maze-shaken-baby-conviction-appeal?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-russell-maze-shaken-baby-conviction-appeal?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ten</span><span class="invisible">nessee-russell-maze-shaken-baby-conviction-appeal?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/nashville/" rel="tag">#Nashville</a> <a href="/tags/tennessee/" rel="tag">#Tennessee</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/courts/" rel="tag">#Courts</a> <a href="/tags/medicine/" rel="tag">#Medicine</a> <a href="/tags/doctors/" rel="tag">#Doctors</a></p>
<p>NEW: How a Gap in Tennessee’s Probation System Leaves Domestic Violence Victims in Danger<br>--<br>Probation officers pause in-person visits and home searches for offenders facing an arrest warrant. That reduced supervision can last for months — in one case it was over a year. Six mothers died during this gap, WPLN and ProPublica found.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-domestic-violence-guns-probation" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-domestic-violence-guns-probation"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ten</span><span class="invisible">nessee-domestic-violence-guns-probation</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/guns/" rel="tag">#guns</a> <a href="/tags/criminaljustice/" rel="tag">#criminaljustice</a> <a href="/tags/crime/" rel="tag">#crime</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#government</a> <a href="/tags/tennessee/" rel="tag">#tennessee</a> <a href="/tags/domesticviolence/" rel="tag">#domesticviolence</a></p>
<p>NEW: How Tennessee’s Speaker of the House Helped Keep a Payday Lender’s Struggling Sports Gambling Company Alive</p><p>Cameron Sexton took steps that allowed the owners of a payday lending company, Advance Financial, to keep using their stores to boost a now-defunct online sports betting enterprise.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-sports-gambling-action247-loans" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-sports-gambling-action247-loans"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/ten</span><span class="invisible">nessee-sports-gambling-action247-loans</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/tennessee/" rel="tag">#tennessee</a> <a href="/tags/gambling/" rel="tag">#gambling</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#government</a> <a href="/tags/personalfinance/" rel="tag">#personalfinance</a> <a href="/tags/sports/" rel="tag">#sports</a></p>