Hours after a Texas Department of Public Safety senior official called Uvalde’s police response to the May 24 mass shooting an ‘abject failure,’ Mayor Don McLaughlin says the city and county’s decision to not release information is not a ‘coverup.’
McLaughlin said in a statement the Uvalde District Attorney requested the city not release any records related to her investigation of the shooting at Robb Elementary school that killed 19 kids and two teachers. This also includes requests for body cam footage from officers inside the building, which he said is restricted from release by the Texas Occupations Code.
“There is no coverup,” McLaughlin said in the statement. “Anyone who suggests the city of Uvalde is withholding information without legitimate and legal reasons is wrong and is spreading misinformation. There are specific legal reasons the city cannot release information at this time.”
McLaughlin does not cite which specific section of the code the city or Uvalde District Attorney Christina Busbee are using to deny requests to release body cam footage. MySA reached out to Busbee for clarification on the Texas code cited.
Vice’s tech publication Motherboard has made requests for the body cam footage. But a letter from Denton, Navarro, Rocha, Bernal & Zech, a private law firm hired by the city of Uvalde, to Attorney…
Hours after a Texas Department of Public Safety senior official called Uvalde’s police response to the May 24 mass shooting an ‘abject failure,’ Mayor Don McLaughlin says the city and county’s decision to not release information is not a ‘coverup.’
McLaughlin said in a statement the Uvalde District Attorney requested the city not release any records related to her investigation of the shooting at Robb Elementary school that killed 19 kids and two teachers. This also includes requests for body cam footage from officers inside the building, which he said is restricted from release by the Texas Occupations Code.
“There is no coverup,” McLaughlin said in the statement. “Anyone who suggests the city of Uvalde is withholding information without legitimate and legal reasons is wrong and is spreading misinformation. There are specific legal reasons the city cannot release information at this time.”
McLaughlin does not cite which specific section of the code the city or Uvalde District Attorney Christina Busbee are using to deny requests to release body cam footage. MySA reached out to Busbee for clarification on the Texas code cited.
Vice’s tech publication Motherboard has made requests for the body cam footage. But a letter from Denton, Navarro, Rocha, Bernal & Zech, a private law firm hired by the city of Uvalde, to Attorney…Read Morelocal_news
