The ruling by 261st Civil District Court Judge Daniella DeSeta Lyttle calls on DPS to fulfill 28 records requests filed by the news organizations, which include ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, subject to redactions such as personal information of police officers and blurring the faces of minor victims in crime scene photographs.

The files would shed light on the failed police response, in which officers waited more than an hour to confront the shooter who had an AR-15-style rifle. Nineteen children and two teachers died that day.

Lyttle issued a preliminary order in June. The one issued Tuesday is the final judgment. It requires DPS to provide the records sought within 20 days, unless the state police agency appeals the ruling.

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      7 months ago

      It wasn’t us, it was this terrible winter storm, it took out all the power, I swear! [points at map with sharpied-in winter storm]

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        Oh, and ignore the fact that the winter storm took out the power because we have our own grid and it’s barely regulated, making it predictably not able to handle the kind of winter storms we’re now more likely to get due to the climate change that we don’t believe in.

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      No, they schedule an email to send but their crappy IT systems hiccup and the appeal email doesn’t get sent until after the deadline