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The law, in its own words

Tennessee

Tenn. Const.

Not read yet: Tennessee

Where we would read it: NOT FETCHED, BY THEIR INSTRUCTION. www.capitol.tn.gov/robots.txt, read 2026-09-21, carries a group 'User-agent: *' whose rule is 'Disallow: /'. It allows Googlebot, Bingbot, Slurp, DuckDuckBot, SiteimproveBot, ia_archiver and archive.org_bot by name, and refuses everyone else -- so the state's law is open to the search engines and the Internet Archive and closed to a civic reader. We do not rename our crawler to get around it: the declared identity is the whole point of having one, and a refusal we answer by pretending to be somebody else is not a refusal we honoured.

This is the law as the state printed it. It is legal facts, not legal advice. It cannot tell you what to do about your own case.