From 9NEWS (Denver):  In what should be considered a small victory for open records advocates in Colorado, a judge has decided it would be permissible for the City of Aurora to release parts of an after-action review of the emergency response to the 2012 theater shooting that left 12 dead and 70 injured.

District Court Judge Stephen Collins issued a ruling Thursday stating the release of many parts of the report would not “create any meaningful risk of tainting the jury pool” in the criminal case against accused shooter James Holmes. That case is set to begin in December.

In 2013, the city of Aurora paid an outside agency $250,000 to review the frenzied response to the July 20, 2012, shooting inside the Century 16 Movie Theater. The report was finished in April, but the city had kept in confidential citing the ongoing gag order in the criminal case.

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