Judge blocks Uvalde DA from joining public records lawsuit; grand jury could weigh potential criminal charges in Oct.

AUSTIN – A state district court docket pass judgement on in Austin has blocked Uvalde County District Attorney Christina Mitchell from intervening in an ongoing lawsuit filed by way of greater than a dozen media organizations in opposition to the Texas Department of Public Safety over records from ultimate 12 months’s Uvalde faculty bloodbath.

Mitchell had tried to interfere on behalf of DPS to dam the discharge of records in regards to the regulation enforcement reaction to the deadliest faculty taking pictures in Texas historical past.

Media organizations, together with KSAST 12, sued DPS in August 2022 after the regulation enforcement company refused to unencumber public records from the taking pictures and next regulation enforcement reaction.

A pass judgement on ultimate week dominated in opposition to Mitchell and gave DPS officers extra time to iron out redactions they’d up to now submitted to the court docket.

The preliminary proposed file submitted by way of DPS used to be so closely redacted that it could no longer be learn, an lawyer representing 12 mentioned.

During the listening to, it used to be additionally printed that the Texas Rangers file at the May 2022 taking pictures, in which 19 scholars and two academics had been killed at Robb Elementary School, has been finished and is 3,000 pages lengthy. The file has no longer been launched publicly.

An lawyer representing Mitchell in court docket additionally printed {that a} grand jury could be convened in Uvalde once October to weigh conceivable criminal charges stemming from the bloodbath.

Mitchell has no longer mentioned who particularly is the topic of her criminal investigation.