by Jason Morris

This new law will make running background checks easier for businesses in Tennessee. Kudos to the Tennessee Legislature!

MEMPHIS, TN - Eyewitness News Gets Results: In May, Eyewitness News Everywhere exposed a loophole in Tennessee state law that allowed sex offenders to work on ice cream trucks. After seeing our story, lawmakers did something about it.

On Thursday, June 12, 2008, Governor Phil Bredesen signed a sex offender bill into law. Chief Investigator Jeni DiPrizio uncovered several sex offender that worked on Mid-South ice cream trucks, including Ivan Pryor. Pryor was arrested three times for rape of a child, sexual exploitation and exposing himself to a person under age 13. Pryor is now off the streets and in Jail.

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