A Davidson County judge rejected one of the Tennessee Highway Patrol's reasons for withholding records about a series of immigration stops in Nashville in May, but said another hearing would be held to determine how an exemption on personal information might apply to withholding information about trooper's identies.
A Tennessee Court of Appeals heard arguments in a case in which Nashville government denied access to records it collected in the Covenant School shooting that were created by the shooter, Audrey Hale. The parents of the children at the school argued that because they owned the copyright -- given to them by the shooter's parents -- Metro Nashville could not release them. A lower court agreed with the parents, ruling that the Copyright Act preempts the state's public records law.
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: She went to bed angry that her father had taken away her phone and was trying to keep her from her boyfriend. Waking up later, she loaded her gun, checked on her younger brother and debated for about 20 minutes in her room before deciding to go into the living room and shoot her [...]
Tennessee is not tracking how many of its new education vouchers to attend private schools go to students already in private schools as opposed to those in public schools. It stands alone among states in preventing that information from reaching the public and keeps hidden an important policy outcome in the program.
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.
