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The city of Uvalde released a trove of records Saturday related to the 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School, ending its more than two-year legal battle with nearly two dozen news organizations, including The Texas Tribune and ProPublica.

The material contains body and dash camera videos from responding Uvalde Police Department officers, documents between city officials, and hundreds of audio files from local police communications and emergency calls to city dispatchers, as well as those made by witnesses. The city is the first government entity to release records related to the Uvalde shooting, agreeing to a settlement with the news organizations that sued for the material. Other state and local government agencies continue to fight the public disclosure of their related records.

This is a developing story that will be updated as ProPublica and the Tribune review the records.

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Laura Prather, who represented the news agencies, called the release a “step toward transparency,” and noted that the Uvalde school district, Uvalde County Sheriff’s Office and Texas Department of Public Safety are still fighting to withhold materials related to the shooting and law enforcement response.

“Transparency is necessary to help Uvalde heal and allow us all to understand what happened and learn how to prevent future tragedies,” said Prather, media law chair for Haynes Boone.