TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jul 13, 2022

Davidson County Chancellor Patricia Head Moskal has denied a Memphis TV reporter access to the full Department of Children’s Services case file on a 14-year-old Bartlett boy, found dead from starvation in 2020, Tennessee Lookout reports. Moskal said WREG journalist Stacy Jacobson may not access the full and un-redacted files while a criminal case against the boy’s mother and six other adults is ongoing. Paul McAdoo, an attorney with the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press and former chair of the TBA Communications Section, is representing Jacobson. He said no decisions have been made yet on next steps in the case.