From AL.com:
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – AL.com and The Birmingham News today asked a judge to order the Birmingham Airport Authority to release terminal construction records, including those related to a sign that fell and killed a 10-year-old boy last month.The authority has violated Alabama's Open Records Act and is illegally withholding most of the records requested by the news organization March 25 regarding the $201 million terminal modernization project at the Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport, according to a lawsuit filed by the news organization.[…]Al.com submitted the records request after a sign in the airport fell March 22 onto a 10 year-old boy, his two brothers, and his mother. Luke Bresette, was killed and his mother, Heather Bresette, was severely injured. Sam Bresette, 8, and Tyler Bresette, 5, also were injured.[…]Alabama's Open Records Act states that "every citizen has a right to inspect and take a copy of any public writing of this state, except as otherwise expressly provided by statute," the lawsuit states.