Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department of correction, the board of parole, the Tennessee bureau of investigation and all local law enforcement agencies are specifically authorized to share criminal incident information, limited to the time, place and nature of the crime, with each other and the vendor selected by the department to carry out the purposes of this part, and the department is authorized to direct the vendor so chosen to use data collected pursuant to §40-39-302(b) in preparing correlation reports as described in that subsection for distribution to and use by state and local law enforcement agencies.