As part of its Uvalde probe, the FBI made a public information request to the city, emails show — raising questions about how well agencies are sharing information.
August 02, 2022, 3:54 PMPolice deploy in a hallway after Salvador Ramos entered Robb Elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, May 24, 2022 in a still image from police body camera video.In the days immediately following the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, city leaders were bombarded with requests for information from journalists covering the attack.
Emails show the that the FBI ended up getting the information it was seeking -- but not through the Public Information Act request. Police deploy in a hallway after Salvador Ramos entered Robb Elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, May 24, 2022 in a still image from police body camera video."The state rules do not allow for an intergovernmental transfer of records with a federal agency," a representative from the law firm Denton Navarro Rocha Bernal"Additionally, the rules require that the requests from your agency be treated in the same manner as all other requestors," the email said.
On June 16, the FBI emailed the law firm, saying, "We no longer need these records," and withdrew its requests. "But the city inevitably cooperated with the FBI and made sure they had what they needed," said the spokesperson."The city has processed all open records requests in accordance with the laws that guide us," said the spokesperson.
DPS officials also said recently that they had, themselves, shared some information with the public that had been requested though the Public Information Act.
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