Tennessee Code Title 41. Correctional Institutions and Inmates § 41-22-128

(a) There shall be no community residential facilities that accommodate state or federal adult inmates who are on work release or other community release or prerelease programs established within one thousand feet (1,000′) of a public or private school, orphanage, child care center, or any similar establishment where groups of children from nursery age to grade twelve attend or reside.

(b) Subsection (a) applies only to counties having a population of seven hundred fifty thousand (750,000) or more, according to the 1980 federal census or any subsequent federal census, and to counties having a metropolitan form of government.