{"id":254831,"date":"2022-06-14T06:36:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T06:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=254831"},"modified":"2022-06-15T07:23:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T07:23:10","slug":"what-are-they-trying-to-hide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=254831","title":{"rendered":"What Are They Trying to Hide?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Uvalde covers up records on top cop Pete Arredondo who led the bungled police response to the school shooter as city tries to wriggle out of divulging information requested by DailyMail.com and others under Texas sunshine laws<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lawyers hired by the City of Uvalde, Texas, have written a letter to state attorney general Ken Paxton trying to wriggle out of divulging information to the public\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>In a letter penned Wednesday, law firm Denton Navarro Rocha Bernal &amp; Zech said the City received 148 requests for information from May 25 through June 7\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The city claims it has no obligation to comply with any of the requests, citing 52 excuses that it claims makes the information &#8216;excepted&#8217; from disclosure<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Among the information the city is trying to hide are records on Pete Arredondo, the school district police chief who bungled the response to the mass shooting<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Arredondo was in charge of the police response to the shooting at Robb Elementary School last month that led to 21 deaths\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Josh Boswell \u2013 Daily Mail June 13, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The City of Uvalde is trying to cover up records on the top cop who led the bungled police response to the active shooter situation at an elementary school last month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Robb-Elementary-School-TX.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-254007\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Robb-Elementary-School-TX.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Robb-Elementary-School-TX.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Robb-Elementary-School-TX-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Lawyers hired by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/texas\/index.html\"><strong>Texas<\/strong><\/a> city last week wrote to state attorney general Ken Paxton trying to wriggle out of divulging information requested by DailyMail.com and others under the state&#8217;s sunshine laws.<\/p>\n<p>In the letter, attorneys at Denton Navarro Rocha Bernal &amp; Zech revealed 148 requests for information had been made to the City from May 25, 2022 through June 7, 2022 by media organizations and individuals.<\/p>\n<p>The city claims it has no obligation to give up any information to any of the requests, listing 52 excuses in the letter that it says lets it off the hook from requirements under the Texas Public Information Act.<\/p>\n<p>Among the information Uvalde local government is trying to hide are any records on Pete Arredondo, the Uvalde school district police chief who was in charge of the police response to the shooting at Robb Elementary School last month that led to 21 deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Arredondo, now a city councilor, has been the focus of intense criticism, blamed for the hour-long wait to bust into the classroom where injured children were bleeding out and the killer, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, was hiding.<\/p>\n<p>In their letter to the Texas AG, lawyers requested a &#8216;decision from the attorney general about whether the requested information is excepted from disclosure under the Public Information Act.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The City claims that the requested information is not information that is collected, assembled, or maintained under a law or ordinance or in connection with the transaction of official business by a governmental body or for a governmental body or is excepted from disclosure,&#8217; the letter, signed by attorney Cynthia Trevino, adds.<\/p>\n<p>The AG&#8217;s office did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/09\/us\/uvalde-shooting-police-response.html\"><strong> New York Times<\/strong><\/a> reported last week that Arredondo, 50, knew there were people alive but injured in the locked classrooms, based on the transcript of police body cam footage from the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas Department of Public Safety director Steven McCraw appeared to lay blame for the delayed response at Arredondo&#8217;s feet in a press conference after the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>McCraw said the school police chief treated Ramos as a &#8216;barricaded suspect&#8217; rather than an active shooter and so waited for backup. &#8216;It was the wrong decision, period. There&#8217;s no excuse for that,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago the Texas Department of Public Safety claimed that Arredondo had stopped cooperating with state investigators and did not respond for two days to their requests.<\/p>\n<p>Arredondo denied the allegation, telling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/06\/01\/us\/uvalde-shooting-police-chief-pete-arredondo\/index.html\"><strong>CNN<\/strong><\/a> he had been &#8216;on the phone with them every day&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10905145\/City-Uvalde-trying-cover-records-police-chief-bungled-response.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why is the City of Uvaldo, Texas, withholding information about the officer in charge of the police response to the recent school shooting that left 19 pupils and two teachers dead? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Behind_The_News"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254831"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254850,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254831\/revisions\/254850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}