Sunshine Law re-examined, school virus outbreak, Carol Scott

The state's Sunshine Law was back in the news this week. A subcommittee studying the law says lawmakers need more room to discuss policy issues with fellow lawmakers outside the public domain.

A member of that subcommittee is Knox County Commissioner Mike Hammond, who joins Gene Patterson in this week's first segment.

Then, perhaps you've never heard of shigella or the disease shigellosis until suddenly several cases of the disease started showing up in our schools. To discuss this outbreak and other communicable illnesses is Dr. Martha Buchanan and Dr. Kathy Brown of the Knox County Health Department.

We're honored to have Carol Scott in the final segment. She is one of the unsung heroes of Knoxville history.

A decade ago, tensions were high in Knoxville's Black community because of the deaths of three Black men in separate incidents while in the custody of Knoxville police.

In response to the calls for greater accountability of the police, then-mayor Victor Ashe created the Police Advisory Review Committee, an independent group of citizens whose job was to review complaints against the department and its officers.

The glue that kept it all together was its executive director, Carol Scott, who is about to retire from the city.