Sealed Testimony

Excerpts from a Rocky Mountain News article:

Accounts of school staff sealed

200 pages of interviews will be locked in state archives

By Robert Sanchez, Rocky Mountain News

February 27, 2004

"Interviews with Columbine High School staff members who knew killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold will never be made public, the Jefferson County Public Schools superintendent said Thursday.

Instead, the approximately 200 pages of excerpted interviews will be kept under lock and key in the state archives, where only a handful of people might ever have access."

"Those documents belong to individual employees, and the district and the Board of Education have nothing to do with it," Superintendent Cindy Stevenson said.

"Though some of the Columbine victims' families have questioned why the school district would want to keep the interviews private, the district has claimed attorney-client privilege as a reason to keep the documents out of the public eye.

The staffers were interviewed shortly after the shootings because they had firsthand knowledge of Harris and Klebold."

Note: The accounts were sealed because of attorney-client privilege, just like the files dubbed the "Litigation Files."