Connecticut

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."

After a hearing officer from Connecticut's Freedom of Information Commission recommended that 911 calls related to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting  in Newtown be released, a prosecutor has objected on the grounds, among others, that the commission does not have jurisdiction and that the recommendation would violate a new state law exempting many records of the shooting from the right-to-know arena. The media outlets seeking the information want to examine how law enforcement responded to the school shooting. The full commission will hear the case later this month.

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.