Nashville Law Department Associate Director attorney Lora Barkenbus Fox, right, confers with a colleague during a hearing to decide whether the journals of the Covenant School shooter can be released to the public Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
Attorney Eric Osborne, who represents The Covenant School parents, listens during a hearing to decide whether the journals of the Covenant School shooter can be released to the public Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
Covenant School parent Brent Leatherwood attends a hearing to decide whether the journals of a Nashville school shooter can be released to the public Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
Peter Klett, attorney for The Covenant School, left, and Rocky King, attorney for the The for Covenant Presbyterian Church, right, confer during a hearing to decide whether the journals of a Nashville school shooter can be released to the public Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
Attorney Russell Nobile, representing the Tenn. Firearms Association, listens during a hearing to decide whether the journals of the Covenant School shooter can be released to the public Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
CORRECTS LAST NAME TO LEATHERWOOD, NOT LEATHER - Covenant School parent Brent Leatherwood, right, hugs attorney Eric Osborne, left, before a hearing to decide whether the journals of a Nashville school shooter can be released to the public, Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
Attorney Richard Harlow, who represents The Tennessean, presents arguments to release the journals and documents related to the Covenant School shooter case to the public Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
Attorney Douglas Pierce argues for the release of the Covenant School shooter's journals of during a hearing to decide whether the documents can be released to the public Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
FILE - A roadside memorial is stands near the Covenant School on the one-year anniversary of a mass shooting, March 27, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. Whether the journals of a Nashville school shooter can be released to the public will go before a Tennessee judge on Tuesday, April 16, after nearly a year of legal wrangling over who gets to participate in the case. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)
Chancellor I'Ashea L. Myles presides over a hearing to decide whether the journals of the Covenant School shooter can be released to the public, Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
Attorney Richard Harlow, who represents The Tennessean, presents arguments to release the journals and documents related to the Covenant School shooter case to the public Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)