Communicating a Threat Concerning a School Employee

1. Law
2. Tennessee Code
3. Criminal Offenses
4. Offenses Against Person
5. Assaultive Offenses
6. Communicating a Threat Concerning a School Employee

1. For purposes of this section, “school” means any:
   1. Elementary school, middle school or high school;
   2. College of applied technology or postsecondary vocational or technical school; or
   3. Two-year or four-year college or university.
2. A person commits the offense of communicating a threat concerning a school employee if:
   1. The person communicates to another a threat to cause the death of or serious bodily injury to a school employee and the threat is directly related to the employee's scope of employment;
   2. The threat involves the use of a firearm or other deadly weapon;
   3. The person to whom the threat is made reasonably believes that the person making the threat intends to carry out the threat; and
   4. The person making the threat intentionally engages in conduct that constitutes a substantial step in the commission of the threatened act and the threatened act and the substantial step when taken together:
      1. Are corroborative of the person's intent to commit the threatened act; and
      2. Occur close enough in time to evidence an intent and ability to commit the threatened act.
3. Communicating a death threat concerning a school employee is a Class B misdemeanor punishable by a maximum term of imprisonment of thirty (30) days.

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