Adam Lanza

The Associated Press reports that prosecutor State's Attorney Stephen Sedensky III announced today he will no longer fight against the disclosure of 911 calls made as Adam Lanza shot schoolchildren and school officials at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Last week, Sedensky was ordered by a trial judge to release the 911 calls to the Associated Press. The AP says it wants to review the recordings, in part, to scrutinize the law enforcement response to the mass shooting.

The Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission ruled that the 911 phone calls related to the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., should be released, the Associated Press reported. The commission rejected a prosecutor's argument that there was still some law enforcement purpose for the records to remain undisclosed. An appeal is promised by law enforcement, the AP reported. The AP also said it requested the records, in part, to review the police response to the school shooting by Adam Lanza: "On the day of the shooting, the AP requested documents, including copies of 911 calls, as it does routinely in news gathering, in part to examine the police response to the massacre that sent officers from multiple agencies racing to the school."

A Connecticut judge has ordered that the school records of Adam Lanza, the deceased Sandy Hook school shooter, be turned over to a state panel that reviews the fatalities of children.

The Connecticut Post found that the gun shop where the mother of the Sandy Hook shooter, Adam Lanza, had purchased the firearms used by Lanza in the Newtown, CT, elementary-school murders had a history of deficient compliance with gun-shop rules and regulations.  FOIA records showed that the deficiencies mainly related to poor record-keeping. The newspaper cited one instance in which the gun shop was unaware that a gun had been stolen from its premises.