Memphis Morning News | Connie Raguli

Under a new law proposed by Representative Ron Travis (R-Dayton-District 31) and Senator Paul Bailey (R-Sparta-District 15), parents could be charged with a felony for failure to turn over their child to the woefully inept Tennessee Department of Children’s Services (DCS), even on anonymous and unsubstantiated allegations of child abuse and neglect when DCS obtains a secret court order based on those allegations.