If the intention of the department is to exercise an exemption to the things the law allows them to - to withhold information that might in a very specific manner hurt their investigation in an enumerated way - their remedy is to redact that information, not withhold the entire records, Smith said. South Carolina Press Association attorney Taylor Smith said the Sheriff's Office should be redacting specific information they deem exempt, not withholding reports from the public entirely. Supplemental reports will be made available upon request after the prosecution has concluded and those exemptions are no longer applicable, Vorberger said. View Gallery: Simultaneous vigils held for Jamari Jackson Wesley Vorberger, a General Counsel at the Greenville County Sheriff's Office, said because the case is still active and the prosecution is pending, they are limited with what the Sheriff's Office can provide without interfering in the ongoing prosecution or depriving the defendant of a fair trial. The Greenville County Coroner's Office has also declined to release its investigative report due to the ongoing law enforcement investigation. The Sheriff's Office has declined to release any additional records to date, citing exemptions to public records laws. The Greenville News obtained the report Thursday - nearly a month after the March 31 shooting - in response to a Freedom of Information Act request for documents pertaining to the school shooting. Watch Video: County Sheriff address media after Tanglewood Middle School shootingĪ Tanglewood Middle School shooting that left a 12-year-old dead and another student in custody was "possibly gang related," according to a one-page incident report the Greenville County Sheriff's Office released this week while refusing to release additional records.
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