![]() It gives the victims’ families the right to decide,” said Andrew Doba, spokesman for Malloy.Ī lone gunman opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown last December 14, killing 20 children and six educators before taking his own life.ĭoba said the governor’s office has heard from some who would like the measure to apply to all cases, but the bill under consideration by Malloy would only apply to the victims of the schoolhouse massacre. “The purpose of the bill is to give (Sandy Hook) families the right to say they don’t want crime scene photos published. Only transcript portions not containing descriptions of the victims would be made available. It would exempt the release of death certificates as public records, and would limit the release of 911 call recordings. The bill also would allow officials to redact the identity of any minor. If enacted, it would require written consent of those who survived the shooting or family members of those who died for officials to release photos, video, audio recordings or 911 calls “depicting the physical condition of any victim.” The governor’s office sent CNN a working draft of the bill. Malloy is considering legislation that would let families of victims in the Sandy Hook school shooting block release of some crime-scene documents. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.
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