After a challenge from WBIR in Knoxville, Meigs County Judge Casey Stokes reversed his closure of court proceedings and records in a juvenile murder case, opening future proceedings and access to most documents, including transcripts of previous hearings. WBIR reported on Monday the more detailed allegations against the 15-year-old revealed in the newly released court records:| Tennessee Coalition for Open Government
More than two years after a shooter blasted into the Covenant School in Nashville and killed six people, including three third-graders, the Metro Nashville Police Department on April 2 released a 48-page investigative case summary officially announcing the end of the case. Records of shooter's writings collected by police continue to be part of a lawsuit on appeal at the Court of Appeals in which a chancellor ruled copyright prevented their release. Tennessee Coalition for Open Government| Tennessee Coalition for Open Government
Parents and others with the Covenant School attend a public records hearing in June 2024 in a case involving whether police must release its investigative records into the March 2023 shooting at the school. Many records have been at issue, including the shooter's| Tennessee Coalition for Open Government
It's been a dizzying week in the public records case before Davidson County Chancellor I'Ashea Myles. For more than a year now, Myles has been considering whether the public records law requires the Nashville Police Department to release files from its investigation into the Covenant School shooting. Six people were killed in the shooting, including three| Tennessee Coalition for Open Government
A Davidson County chancellor on Monday ordered Michael Patrick Leahy to appear in court on June 17 to show why his publication of information from leaked documents in the Covenant case does not violate her court orders, and why he should not be held| Tennessee Coalition for Open Government
Tennessee lawmakers made a major change this year in the state's law regarding access to county autopsy reports, prohibiting the release of such reports when the deceased is a minor and the cause of death is listed as a homicide. However, people will be able to still see such reports during an in-person| Tennessee Coalition for Open Government