On Feb. 2, 2026, the Collegedale City Commission unanimously approved a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Collegedale Police Department and the Tennessee Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force (CEHTTF), a local extension of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The agreement ensures future collaboration between the two groups, a need brought to the forefront after Collegedale’s recent human trafficking case.
MOUs are documents used to establish a working relationship between two parties without a legally binding contract; they describe the rules and expectations of a relationship while also outlining processes for when collaborative action needs to occur. According to the memorandum its guidelines will “delineate the responsibilities of the CEHTTF personnel; formalize relationships between participating agencies for policy guidance, planning, training, public and media relations; and maximize inter-agency cooperation.”
The document provides an itemized description of how the parties will conduct themselves, including rules surrounding information sharing, investigative methods, confidential human sources, records and reports. The MOU was proposed in the wake of the human trafficking sting conducted Aug. 21, described in a previous Accent article. The ripples of the arrests of 11 individuals, eight of whom were tried for solicitation of a minor, have led the police department to reinforce their existing relationship with the FBI task force…