From The Denver Post:  Administrators at Littleton Public Schools cite a federal student privacy law as the reason they refuse to divulge information about Karl Pierson, who shot fellow student Claire Davis before killing himself in Arapahoe High School last Dec. 13.

As a result, the public has no idea what the school knew about prior threats.

The laws, those officials say, also won’t let them comment on earlier school security guard statements that school officials ignored warning signs.

The district won’t say anything about its role in the shooting or discuss its security or safety protocols.

The silence is maddening but even more so because the district is citing the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act, which the Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition says does not apply to adult students who are deceased.

That would include Pierson, who was 18 when he died.

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