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Uvalde City Officials Release Shooting Records That Provide New Details, Reaffirm Previous Reporting
The release is the first major disclosure of documents by a government agency involved in the flawed response to the deadliest school shooting in Texas history, and it comes after a yearslong legal battle involving nearly two dozen news outlets.
August 10, 2024
Former Uvalde Schools Police Chief Indicted for Role in Robb Elementary Shooting Response
Pete Arredondo, the former chief, and former officer Adrian Gonzales face felony charges of abandoning or endangering a child. Read The Texas Tribune's report.
June 27, 2024
Families of Uvalde Shooting Victims Sue Texas DPS Officers for Waiting To Confront Gunman
In a separate settlement, the city of Uvalde will pay $2 million to the families, create a permanent memorial to the victims and provide enhanced training for police officers.
May 22, 2024
Check Your State: Here Are the Active Shooter Training Requirements for Schools and Law Enforcement
No states mandate annual active shooter training for police officers, according to an analysis by ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and FRONTLINE. In comparison, at least 37 states require such training in schools, typically on a yearly basis.
February 8, 2024
DOJ Blasts Law Enforcement’s Uvalde Shooting Response in New Report, Calls for Agencies to Prioritize Training
In a long-awaited report, the Justice Department found widespread failures in the official response to the 2022 shooting. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said that had officers followed accepted practices, “lives would have been saved.”
January 18, 2024
Reports Analyzing the Police Response to a Mass Shooting Can Leave Unanswered Questions — if They’re Released at All
Even if an after-action investigation is released, a lack of national standards leads to wide variability in the detail of information in reports, ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and FRONTLINE found.
December 27, 2023
‘Inside the Uvalde Response’ Director and Reporter Talk About Helping People Understand ‘How This Went Wrong’
A conversation with two of the makers of FRONTLINE, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune’s documentary “Inside the Uvalde Response” about how they analyzed a trove of investigative material to reconstruct the chaotic response to the Robb Elementary School shooting.
December 8, 2023
Uvalde Students Followed Active Shooter Training & Stayed Quiet. Some Responding Officers Didn’t Realize Kids Were in Classrooms.
Accounts from law enforcement officers in a documentary from FRONTLINE, The Texas Tribune and ProPublica show that Robb Elementary students stayed quiet and hidden on May 24, 2022 as they were trained to do – and, because of that, 'officers thought they weren't there' and took longer to help, reporter Lomi Kriel says in this excerpt from 'Inside the Uvalde Response.'
December 5, 2023
“Someone Tell Me What to Do”
Across the country, states require more training to prepare students and teachers for mass shootings than for those expected to protect them. The differences were clear in Uvalde, where children and officers waited on opposite sides of the door.
December 5, 2023
Why We’re Publishing Never-Reported Details of the Uvalde School Shooting Before State Investigators
Over a year after the school shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, the community still doesn’t know what went wrong. It’s a key reason we’re publishing findings based on a trove of raw materials investigators have yet to release.
December 5, 2023