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. More than a hundred submissions were sent to city hall and the police department under the state’s public information law, to request documents and video that could help make sense of a mass shooting that left 19 children and two teachers dead.
But it wasn’t just members of the media who were seeking such records; the FBI was too, according to government emails newly obtained by ABC News.
