Tennessee announced it will remove sex workers with HIV from the sex offender registry in a settlement over its decades-long law.
Tennessee has agreed to remove sex workers with HIV from the sex offender registry following two lawsuits that argued the state’s law did not account for evolving science on the spread and prevention of the disease, according to the Chattanooga Times Free Press. The state’s decades-lasting laws made prostitution a misdemeanor for the majority of sex workers, but a felony for those who were HIV-positive.
Fox News Digital reached out to the Attorney General's Office to ask about the litigation. 'The General Assembly recently amended the sex offender registry statutes to remove aggravated prostitution from the list of offenses that require registration,' Director of Communications Amy Lannom Wilhite told Fox News. 'The plaintiffs have agreed to drop their challenges to the registry statutes as the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation implements those amendments.
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