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December 14, 2006

AG to release more Station fire evidence tomorrow

PROVIDENCE -- The Attorney General's Office will release tomorrow 185 CD-ROMs worth of electronic evidence gathered during its Station fire investigation.

The office announced the release -- which was expected -- this evening in response to open records requests by The Providence Journal, The Associated Press and The Boston Globe.

The information includes 57 video clips, which primarily constitute footage of various bands that played at The Station in the years and months preceding the fire. It also includes more than 200 audio clips of more than three hours of radio and telephone transmissions of local authorities the night of the February 2003 fire that killed 100 people and injured about 200 more.

"Responding to this particular [open records] request has been, from all of our office's perspectives - planning and logistics, human resources, and legal - challenging, to say the least," Attorney General Patrick Lynch said in a statement. "I firmly believe, however, that our ongoing release of information is serving the public interest, and that we are meeting our challenge in a timely, responsible, and, above all, sensitive way."

Tomorrow's release will be the second major dissemination of Station fire evidence in recent weeks. Lynch's office released hundreds of pages of evidence late last month.

-- projo.com staff writer Steve Peoples

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