The 911 calls from the Newtown, Connecticut school shooting have been released. Last December, a gunman killed 26 people, including 20 children, at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

The calls had been the center of a huge legal fight. Victims’ families said that their release will only add to their pain.

The Associated Press argued that the calls are an important part of the public record. The courts agreed with the AP.

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Fox News did not air some of the most gut-wrenching calls. Numerous calls not being aired include one from a wounded teacher and one from a parent locked inside a room of the school.

Senior correspondent Rick Leventhal reported that some of the clips aired reflect the professionalism of the emergency dispatchers.

The longest call was from custodian Rick Thorne, who was on the phone for more than 10 minutes. He describes the front glass being shattered. While on the line, the dispatcher can be heard telling someone, “Get everyone you can going down there.”

Judge Eliot Prescott, of the New Britain Superior Court, said keeping the calls secret “only serves to fuel speculation about and undermine confidence in our law enforcement officials.”

On Shepard Smith Reporting, Judge Andrew Napolitano explained that Connecticut has a Freedom of Information statute. He said it’s the government’s burden to state a reason why the calls should not be made available.

Napolitano said, “What these people are going through now is almost as painful as the hell they went through a year ago. The default position is the public has the right to know how the government responds to a tragedy, even if it means reliving the tragedy. And under the law, the judge made the right call.”