Currently before trial Judge Eliot Prescott is the issue of whether the Freedom of Information Commission’s (FOIC) unanimous decision releasing the tapes of the 911 calls from the Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012 was proper. The Associated Press had sought the tapes in part to examine the police response to the massacre that sent officers from multiple agencies racing to the school.
As everyone sadly knows, that massacre left 20 first-graders and six educators dead. If the recordings are released, the AP says it would then review the content and determine what, if any of it would meet the news cooperative’s standards for publication. Danbury State’s Attorney Stephen Sedensky had argued that although 911 calls are typically released, they should not be released now because they are part of an ongoing criminal investigation.
