For well over a year, journalists and Second Amendment groups have been fighting for the release of a trove of documents related to the shootings at Nashville’s Covenant School in 2023, including the private journals of the killer. Now, a judge in Tennessee’s capitol city has issued her decision, and the contents of the journal will be kept officially under wraps… even though portions of the journal have already been leaked on multiple occasions.
Chancellor I’Ashea L. Myles, who serves on the Chancery Court in Davidson County, Tennessee, did rule that the police investigative report on the Covenant shooting could see the light of day once it’s been completed, though any references to the school’s security could be redacted. As for the contents of the killer’s journal, Myles accepted the unusual argument raised by several families of victims that releasing the material would violate copyright law.
Lawyers and pro-First Amendment advocates have argued against further weakening the state’s public records laws, especially after Covenant School families successfully lobbied for the passage of a law that limits access to autopsy records of children. […]
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