“We’re Probably Gonna Go to Court”: Media Outlets Lawyer Up to Get Uvalde Shooting Records

Brian Chasnoff, an investigative reporter at the San Antonio Express-News, says his paper has filed more than a dozen record requests since a shooter killed 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, eight weeks ago. “It sounds, you know, simple,” he tells me. But “very few of them have been fulfilled—virtually none of them.” The Texas Tribune and ProPublica have had a similar experience. So has The New York Times. And the Austin American-Statesman. And the Associated Press. And Texas Public Radio. In their shared frustration last month, these organizations and more than three dozen others, both local and… Read Full Article