Other shooting records from the Uvalde school will soon be made public. Here’s what you need to know
Houston – A legal struggle of several years concerning the release of audio and video recordings and other recordings linked to the May 2022 massacre in Robb primary school in Uvalde, Texas, is close to the end. The independent school district Consolidated Uvalde and the County of Uvalde should make disputed files public this week.
The media organizations, including the Associated Press, continued the district and the county in 2022 for the publication of their files related to the mass shooting which killed 19 students and two teachers. A Texas Court of Appeal in July confirmed the decision of a lower court according to which the files were to be published.
The city of Uvalde has published its mass shooting files – including videos and devastating recordings of the radio traffic of the police and calls at 911 – in August 2024. The city of around 15,000 people is around 80 miles (130 kilometers) west of San Antonio.
This information detailed the response to the application of slowly agonizing laws, which was largely condemned. Nearly 400 officers waited for more than 70 minutes before facing the shooter in a classroom filled with children and teachers who died and injured.
The school district should publish the police service and the appeal files of 911; Evidence newspapers linked to the shooting; The images of cameras brought to the body and safety of Robb Elementary; Student files for the shooter; internal communications between district officials; and the results of school safety audits.
This could also make public staff files and other files related to Pete Arredondo, the former Uvalde school police chief who was dismissed and charged for his role in the police response.
County files should include incident reports and 911 concerning Robb Elementary and other locations; Sheriff distribution newspapers and radio traffic; video sequences; Ballistic newspapers and evidence; and reports of interaction of the law with the shooter and his mother.
It is not yet known what part of this information has already been published publicly.
The families of the victims have long requested responsibility for the slow police response.
“There is nothing in these files and these files that can harm any of us more than the pain that we have already endured. Once released, there will be questions. Transparency will come. There could be responsibility.” The responsibility will come, “said Berlinda Arreola, grandmother of the 10-year victim, Ameorie Jo Garza, Berlinda School Board before the Council of Directors. July.
Texas Department of Public Safety is still fighting a separate legal action filed by media organizations for the publication of the files of this agency linked to the school shooting.
DPS said that the publication of its files could be “dangerous” because it would make the police vulnerable by exposing information on how agents do their work and this could also complicate the proceedings in the case, according to the judicial archives.
The DPS file trials remains pending with the 15th Court of Appeal in Texas.
Two of the agents who responded face criminal charges. Arredondo and former school officer Adrian Gonzales pleaded not guilty of several accusations of abandonment and endangerment of children. They should be tried on October 20.
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