By Sofi Zeman
Uvalde Leader-News
Originally published Nov. 16, 2023
Family members of victims killed and wounded in the May 24, 2022, shooting at Robb Elementary filed sanctions against the Texas Department of Public Safety for selectively sharing crime scene images with the Washington Post.
“The same DPS that stands before this court and argues that this information must be withheld from these families has now released some of this information to the Washington Post – one of the plaintiffs in this suit,” the motion reads.
The original media lawsuit was filed in August and seeks to release the department’s 2022 report and findings from the shooting, which the department has concealed despite numerous requests under the Texas Public Information Act.
The motion for sanctions, filed Thursday in the 53rd Judicial District Court in Travis County, is part of an ongoing lawsuit between 14 media outlets and DPS. It comes the same day that the Washington Post shared an article on the affects of an AR-15 rifle on the human body.