Standing on a college football sideline at Florida Atlantic University, Florida Highway Patrol trooper Craig Gaines quickly took a few steps back as two players barreled toward him.

Gaines was working a familiar assignment as a security guard for Florida A&M Universitys head football coach, James Colzie III, when players from both teams started moving in his direction during the September 6th game.

In a split second, one player rolled out of bounds, slamming into Gaines leg, breaking it. The impact forced Gaines' arms into the air as his body crashed to the ground.

Sideline collision at a Florida A&M University and Florida Atlantic University football game

Game footage captured Gainesquickly standing back on his feet, despite the fractured bone.

Less than two weeks later, he was dead.

I had been calling him every day to assess ... how he was doing,saidJohnnie Niles, Gaines mother. He would say, Well mom, Im doing okay except for at night, I have these spasms in my leg, and its very painful.

According to an autopsy, Gaines died of a pulmonary embolism due to deep venous thromboses with the leg fracture listed as a contributing factor.

A medical examiner ruled his death an accident. The Florida Highway Patrol said he passed away "from injuries sustained in the line of duty.

In his mind, the safety issue was protecting the coach ... but never thinking that anything would actually happen to him, Niles said.

Niles said Gaines was a Navy veteran who loved being a police officer, especially his assignment working with the FAMU football team.

Most of all, he enjoyed being around the young men the team players, she said.Im sure he probably got into conversations with them about one thing or the other and probably shared ... life experiences with them that he had gone through ... he loved FAMU.

Scripps News review of college collisions

Scripps News started examining sideline collisions at college football games after conducting a similar review of NFL games in early 2025.

An exclusive analysis of 284 NFL games found nearly 90 people including coaches, team staff, photographers and others had been knocked off their feet during sideline collisions last season. Some suffered broken bones or serious injuries that drew blood.

Scripps News could not replicate a full-season analysis of every college game because there are significantly more college teams and games. Also, replays of complete game broadcasts are not always available. Instead, Scripps News selected 30 televised college games to review from the weekof October 4.

An analysis found at least 20 people including referees, staff, and players had been knocked off their feet on the sidelines of games during that period.

In one case, ESPN sideline reporter Holly Rowe and NFL Hall of Fame player Michael Irvin were knocked down during the same sideline hit. Following the incident, the pair laughed it off on air.

In another incident, a sideline official at the University of Alabama said he broke his wrist and suffered a concussion.

Broken wrist and concussion

I just kept backing up, and I bumped into something or somebody, said Kirby Michaels, an SEC sideline official whose job is to document penalty flags at Alabama games.

Michaels said he was standing in an area where he was permitted to be, but he had gotten in front of the line of scrimmage.

I couldnt go nowhere, and he kept coming, so I put my hands up to protect my kidney, he said.

A collision on the sidelines of an Alabama football game

Michaels was protecting his kidney because he said he received a kidney transplant in June.

The first couple of minutes after (the hit) happened, Im sitting there trying to assess ... am I hurt in my stomach or my kidney area? Am I hurting? Am I hurting where my scar is at? he said. I didnt feel a bit of pain there at all, and then I got to thinking, well, Ive got an adrenaline rush.

Michaels said his kidney was unharmed, but his wrist snapped when he tried to protect his body from the impact. He said he also hit his head.

Im laying on the ground, and my head is spinning, he said. Im like, This is not good.

He was hauled off in a neck brace that day, but he has not been afraid to return to the sideline.

He says sideline collisions are inevitable.

I think it is part of the game, said Michaels. You have news reporters. You have camera people. You have all kinds of people thats there, filming a game, he said. Getting hit and having hard contact on the sidelines from players coming out of bounds has become part of the game. You dont want to be a part of it, but it has become a part (of it).

Michaels said he loves being on the sideline, but he would understand if his position was one day moved to an area away from the field for safety reasons.

Probably my job could be done from the press box. I mean, I wouldnt have to be on the sideline, he said. Dont get me wrong. I love being down there, and I love being part of the atmosphere, but if I was to move up there to keep doing the same work, Id do it.

The rules

NCAA football rules require boundaries called limit lines to be drawn 12 feet outside the sidelines and endlines except in stadiums where total field surface does not permit, and no person outside the team area shall be inside the limit lines.

Meanwhile, only 50 staff and personnel (excluding medics and squad members) are allowed in a designated team area.

Individual schools and conferences also have the power to create their own policies beyond the NCAAs rules or to recommend changes to the NCAA.

With more awareness, its definitely something Ive thought about more, said Kiai Keone, a quarterback for the University of Northern Colorado. He said he started considering sideline safety after Scripps News reached out to him about this story.

It seems like this is something that we should maybe talk about or think about moving forward, he said.

Keone is a new member of the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision Oversight Committee, a group that has authority to consider new rules that could impact safety.

Its important because we want to play the game with as limited injuries as possible and whether people (are) playing or people (are) spectating we want to have a safe game, he said.

Keone said he witnessed a woman on the sidelines at one of UNCs games knocked down early in the season.

It was just another one of those plays where somebody was running off, and she tried to move and it was too late, he said. Shes a trouper.

A sideline hit at a University of Northern Colorado football game.

He acknowledged, however, that sideline collisions also may be unavoidable. Id say its part of the game, he said. But I feel like thats not a good attitude. Like, we can always get better at things, Keone said.

Scripps News exclusive survey

Scripps News sent surveys inquiring about awareness of and improvements to sideline safety to 23 NCAA conferences in the Football Bowl Subdivision and the Football Championship Subdivision, not including independent schools.

Fewer than half of the conferences responded by our deadline, but several indicated sideline safety would be considered further or reviewed in the future.

Safety is a shared responsibility across the league. Each institution develops a stadium and sideline security plan tailored to its venue and resources, ensuring that credentialing, access control, and prohibited item policies are enforced, said Javan Hedlund of the Mountain West Conference. Game management and stadium security personnel work diligently to uphold NCAA and institutional guidelines during every football game.

Hedlund said the Mountain West conference continually reviews protocols for safety, even extending the required limit line by three feet to support safe and efficient movement for broadcast personnel.

A representative from the Big Sky Conference said he did not believe the conference tracked sideline injuries resulting from collisions, but said the conference would use any data/new information in consideration for the future decisions on that.

A representative from the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference said that the visibility of this issue will make this a topic of discussion in the near future, but the conferences current policy does not address sideline safety.

Conference USA indicated it does not maintain a central database of sideline injuries, but the conference continuously works to promote a safe environment on the sidelines through existing operational standards.

A representative from the American Conference told Scripps News that the conference and its schools place the highest priority on the health and safety of student-athletes, coaches, staff, and all event participants and will continue to work together to maintain a safe and positive game-day environment.

Other collisions go viral

In November, a social media post featuring video of a Miami wide receiver colliding with a woman during the teams game at Virginia Tech racked up 5 million views. The video showed the woman coming perilously close to hitting a metal railing but popping back up with the assistance of the Miami player, Malachi Toney.

A sideline collision during a game between Virginia Tech and Miami

Student media said the journalist shown being hit in the video had been injured earlier in the season after being hit by a player in a separate incident.

Incidents in the NFL have also caught lots of attention this season. This month a security guard with his back turned to the field went down after a hard collision with Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Michael Pittman, Jr.

Pittman later took to social media to ask about the mans condition, later saying he received an update that the man was doing good.

Washington Commanders head coach Dan Quinn finished a September game with a bloodied nose after a collision with a player.

Earlier that month, former Raiders CEO Amy Trask posted her feelings about sideline safety in the NFL on X. The sidelines must be kept clearer, they are too crowded, she wrote. It is not safe for players and others.

Players and coaches are not the only individuals on the sideline during the game... stadium security, camera operators, first responders, photographers and others are also on the sideline and it is thus in the best interest not only of the league, the teams and the stadiums to make the sidelines as safe as possible, but in the best interest of all entities with personnel on the sidelines, Trask, now a football analyst for CBS, recently told Scripps News.

Trask told Scripps News she feels the same about college football.

Call for changes after troopers death

Scripps News reached out repeatedly to Florida Highway Patrol to learn more about the role FHP plays on football sidelines. However, they did not provide responses to any of our questions for this story.

Last year, an FHP auxiliary trooperbroke his ankle during a Tampa Bay Buccaneers game when a player hit him from behind near the end zone.

I dont think anybody under any circumstances would actually think that a person would be injured on the sideline, but you have to realize too that in the back of your head, anything can happen at any place, said Johnnie Niles, Craig Gaines mother. We stay prayed up.

When it comes to safety, Niles says theres definitely room for improvement.

More than a year before federal authorities took Brian J. Cole Jr. into custody and accused him of planting pipe bombs outside political headquarters in Washington, D.C., a Virginia police officer was writing him a citation for a minor traffic crash.

Scripps News obtained body camera footage from that April 2024 incident. It offers one of the first glimpses of Cole on camera, showing him talking to police after his vehicle collided with a pick-up truck driven by an 84-year-old man.

The video indicated no one was injured in the minor crash, but Cole received a citation for following too close behind the other vehicle, according to a court record related to the case.

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I was looking for a place that I could, you know, move on to the next lane, and then, just one small lapse in small, small lapse in focus, and I just crashed behind him, Cole told the officer who responded to the scene. He also said he had been involved in a crash in his past.

Earlier this month, Cole, 30, was arrested and charged with transporting and planting two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) on January 5, 2021 at the headquarters of both the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee in Washington, D.C., according to the Department of Justice.

Authorities have not revealed a possible motive. Cole is due to appear in court later this month.

A Florida lawmaker has proposed legislation to impose pool safety requirements on short-term rental properties after a Scripps News investigation revealed dozens of child drownings at vacation homes.

State Sen. Carlos Guillermo Smith, a Democrat, introduced Senate Bill 608 last week.

The bill would require those seeking a new short-term rental license or a license renewal to have at least one pool safety feature in place if the property has a pool. It would also authorize the state to suspend or revoke a license if the vacation rental is not in compliance.

Options for the required safety feature include: an exit alarm on doors and windows leading to the pool, a safety pool cover, a swimming pool water alarm, a self-latching device on doors leading to the pool, and a barrier fence that surrounds a swimming pool.

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Currently, the state residential pool safety law requiring at least one pool safety feature only applies to properties built after the year 2000, when the law was enacted. But Smiths bill would expand those requirements to vacation rental properties seeking short-term rental licenses, regardless of when the property was built.

Smith said this summer he planned to introduce the bill after seeing a series of Scripps News investigations focused on child drownings in backyard pools in vacation homes.

That was an issue that we knew was a problem, but

we didn't realize the extent of the problem until we saw some of this reporting that has been put together by Scripps News, Smith said in September.

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In its ongoing investigation, Scripps News has obtained records from fatal and non-fatal drowning incidents at vacation home rental pools in Florida involving at least 50 children since 2021.

The vacation home bill is one of three bills proposed by Smith this month aimed at improving water safety. He also proposed a drowning prevention education bill, and reintroduced a proposal to require properties built before 2000 to adopt pool safety features when they are transferred or sold. That proposal failed in last years legislative session.

If the vacation rental pool safety bill passes, it is written to take effect next July.

The 2026 Florida legislative session is set to begin in January.

A Colorado city council member asked a simple question at a July 2023 public meeting, not knowing it would take more than two years to find out the answer.

Lakewood City Councilor Anita Springsteen called on the citys police to release body camera footage showing why officers shot and killed a teenage girl months earlier.

It may very well be that there is absolutely no question about what had to happen there, but I think the city should be forthcoming, in that case, about what occurred, she said to the council. I mean, whats going on?

She was skeptical because police in the Denver suburb had initially provided differing narratives of the March incident, which began after a resident reported a mail carrier had been robbed at gunpoint in front of her home by two teenage girls.

A police department spokesperson initially told reporters that the teen suspect had shot and wounded an officer before police shot and killed her in front of an auto repair business. Later that day, the department released a slightly different statement, indicating the suspect had only pointed a gun at police, leading officers to open fire. The wounded officer recovered.

Springsteen, who is also a civil rights attorney, said her concern grew in August when the city received a notice from an attorney representing the 17-year-olds estate claiming officers fired close to 30 shots at the girl.

That sounds like a scene out of 'Scarface,' Springsteen told Scripps News.

It was a concern to me that they were in front of a business where people were working right behind them, and there [were] bullets flying all over the place, she added.

In September 2023, a Critical Incident Response Team working under the authority of the district attorney found the officers actions that day to be justified, finding a reasonable person would believe it was necessary for the officers to use deadly physical force to defend themselves.

The following month, a letter from the police chief said his review of an internal affairs investigation also found the officers use of force to be objectively reasonable and in compliance with department policies and the law.

But the video of the police encounter would not become public until more than two years after it happened, only after a court battle waged by Scripps News.

Lakewood initially denied public records requests for the video from Scripps News and other media. In a denial sent to Scripps News, an attorney for the city cited statutes referring to juvenile privacy rights as their reason for withholding the records.

The city released the video only after Scripps News sent a legal demand letter, filed a lawsuit, prevailed, won again on appeal and paid the city for its time spent blurring the footage.

Scripps News prevails in nearly two-year fight over body camera footageNote: the first 30 seconds of this police body camera footage is silent, as is typical for these recordings. Scripps News edited this video to pause it before the teen is shot, added captions, and highlighted the weapon she held.

The video reviewed by Scripps News showed Lakewood officers chasing 17-year-old robbery suspect Mariana Martinez and surrounding her in front of the auto shop.

One officer pulled out a taser, and another shouted at him to use it. But after the teen pulled out a gun and pointed it in the direction of police, three officers each fired multiple shots, hitting her ten times. She died later that day at a nearby hospital.

No charges were filed against the officers involved, and all three officers received public commendations for their actions that day.

While the video affirmed the police departments account of what happened that day, the citys efforts to withhold it represented one of the first tests of the reforms passed by the Colorado legislature after the murder of George Floyd.

Because of the law, we are receiving the truth 

During the heat of the 2020 summer of protests following Floyds death, Colorado lawmakers spent weeks hammering out a slate of policy reforms to enhance law enforcement integrity in the state.

It took about 16 days of hard, all-day negotiations, with law enforcement, with community, with activists, and with other folks that were involved to come together to come up with the bill that we have today, former state Rep. Leslie Herod, a Democrat, told Scripps News about the law she co-sponsored. One of the critical points was body camera.

Signed into law in June 2020, the Enhance Law Enforcement Integrity Act required all law enforcement agencies to issue body-worn cameras to their officers and required agencies to release footage from cases where there were complaints of misconduct lodged against police within 21 days of the receipt of the complaint.

The key was we wanted unedited body cam footage released in a decent amount of time so that there couldnt be a narrative that was put in place as opposed to reality and the truth, said Herod.

Because of the law, we are receiving the truth. Were seeing it quicker, and were seeing it unedited, she said. And Im proud of that.

When do we see them as a child and when do we see them as an adult?

Scripps News referenced that law in its requests to Lakewood police for video from the March 2023 shooting, but the city attorneys office said police would not release the video because the juvenile suspect who was killed had privacy rights that could only be waived by her family.

In August 2023, after the attorney representing Martinezs estate sent the city of Lakewood a notice of a potential lawsuit over the shooting, records indicate the city allowed the teens family to view the body camera footage.

After a city attorney told a family representative they believed the family could decide whether or not the footage would be released to the media, the relative sent an email to Lakewood saying they did not want the footage released. (Scripps News attempted to reach out to family members months after the shooting, but the people who answered the door said they did not want to speak with us. The attorney who sent the letter on behalf of the teens estate did not file a lawsuit and no longer represents the estate.)

Colorados law says any video that raises substantial privacy concerns including those depicting a minor shall be blurred or redacted before its release to the public, and if redaction or blurring is insufficient to protect the substantial privacy interest the video should be released to the victim or the victims legal representative who could waive the privacy interest.

In the Lakewood case, the city argued blurring the teen suspects face would not sufficiently protect her privacy, but the courts disagreed, ordering the city to release the blurred video.

Denver First Amendment attorney Steve Zansberg, along with the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press, represented Scripps News in court.

I believed strongly and believe strongly today that Scripps was entitled to receive this footage within 21 days of requesting it, and that the City of Lakewood's refusal to provide it to you was unlawful, and that's ultimately what both the trial court and the court of appeals held, Zansberg told Scripps News.

Herod said lawmakers did not intend for body-worn camera videos depicting police incidents involving juvenile suspects to be withheld when they wrote the law, noting that the legislation allowed for such videos to be blurred.

Frankly, Id ask the question if that child were to make it out of that interaction alive, would they be tried as an adult? When do we see them as a child and when do we see them as an adult? Herod said.

I believe that should be across the board, if a life was taken at the hands of law enforcement we should be able to see what really happened, she said.

Theyre little kids

While Lakewood police fought against releasing their video of the shooting, the department and the court did provide records to Scripps News that painted a picture of how the teen girl ended up surrounded by police officers that day.

A postal carrier told police it began when a young girl in a black hoodie walked up and asked him if she could borrow his phone to make a call.

He agreed, and she tried several times to call someone who she said wasnt answering. Soon, a younger girl approached the truck, and the older girl, later identified as Mariana Martinez, pulled out a gun, the mail carrier said. She demanded his keys.

The postal worker escaped, hiding in a backyard nearby. The woman who lived there called 911.

Police chased down Martinez a few blocks away, surrounded her in front of the auto shop, and shot her after she pointed a gun at them. Police video obtained by Scripps News showed the mailman, hiding in the yard, speaking to an officer after a flurry of gunshots was heard in the distance.

I hope theyre OK. I mean, Jesus Christ. Theyre little kids, he said.

Life will never be the same

Hours after the shooting, police tracked down the other teen, Martinezs 13-year-old sister, in a car with an adult named Ashley Cortez. The sister was not criminally charged, according to the district attorney.

Prosecutors charged Cortez in connection with the aggravated robbery of the mail carrier, and she reached a plea deal earlier this year.

Police said Cortez had a history of mail theft, and they came to believe she recruited the girls to commit a similar crime. A neighbors Ring camera captured footage of Cortez in the neighborhood with the girls before the robbery, handing Martinez a black object police believed was possibly the gun, according to court documents.

At her sentencing, Cortezs defense attorney argued she did not plan the robbery or provide the gun, and only dropped the teens off in the neighborhood so one of them could visit a boyfriend. But her attorney said she admitted guilt in court because she could have done more to stop it.

Though Cortez was not convicted of causing Martinezs death directly, prosecutors argued that she deserved a harsher sentence because the girl died.

We cant ignore that she coerced a 17-year-old and 13-year-old to go and commit this crime for her. That she put a gun in the 17-year-olds hand, and it is because of that action alone that a child is dead, prosecutor Lenae Davis said in court, according to a transcript of the proceeding.

In court, the prosecutor read a statement from Martinezs mother, who described the girl as a hard worker who was saving up to buy a car. She got her first fast food job at 15, but it was her job at a Subway sandwich shop managed by Cortez, her mother said, that started the series of events that ended her life.

Life will never be the same, her mother said in the statement read in court.

The judge sentenced Cortez to serve 28 years in prison.

They are putting the blame on me, which is not right, Cortez told Scripps News from prison. I wasnt even there when the robbery happened or when they killed her.

Why were we not permitted to see it?

By the time Anita Springsteen watched the video she publicly called on the city to release two years prior, her city council term had already ended.

Watching the video of the police shooting obtained by Scripps News in 2025, she wondered aloud why the city fought for years to keep the footage secret.

It looks to me like she pointed her gun at them and they shot her, Springsteen said. Part of my question, again, is why were not permitted to see it?

Lakewood police declined a request for an interview for this story. In a written statement, police spokesperson John Romero said the department was not attempting to obscure an incident that would have painted our agents or agency in a bad light.

LPD has always maintained that just because the video in question depicts LPD agents acting in a justified manner, that didnt supersede a familys interest in not having their juvenile loved ones tragic final moments broadcast to the world, Romero wrote.

While we respect the decision of the Court of Appeals and released the video at their order, LPD still believes that an individual, or their next of kin, should decide whether video which captures them in a private moment should be released to the public, he continued.

When asked if that statement meant LPD would withhold similar future videos involving juvenile suspects, Romero responded, We will continue to follow the law as it is written as it pertains to the release of body worn cameras to the public and media.

People have already decided ... just based on the lack of information

A policing expert told Scripps News that agencies are frequently grappling with these dilemmas as the usage of body-worn cameras becomes more widespread.

We have to recognize that we live in an environment now where access to information instantaneously is kind of expected, said Humberto Cardounel, a senior director at the National Policing Institute. Now with body-worn camera, [police] have another resource to actually help visualize, help understand what actually occurred.

Cardounel, a former police chief who now focuses on training law enforcement across the country, advises law enforcement agencies to have clear policies in place about when body-worn camera video will be released. He said police, at times, are not allowed to release video relating to ongoing prosecutions and have to balance other considerations like a familys opposition to the release of footage.

When police delay releasing video, Cardounel said, they are working against an insurmountable challenge, which is people have already decided or made up their mind or developed an idea just based on the lack of information.

Even though in this case the body-worn camera footage may have validated what was being presented, it was the delay in complying with the release that caused or generated or added to some of that consternation and some of that distrust, he said.

In Colorado, law enforcement agencies often release videos from officer-involved shootings with detailed explanations of what occurred within days or weeks of the gunfire.

That has included incidents where juveniles were hurt or killed. In September, Aurora police shot a 17-year-old after he called 911 from a gas station saying he planned to shoot the place up. By the end of the month, police had released a critical incident briefing video, which includes portions of the 911 call and the crucial moments leading up to the gunfire, narrated by a department spokesperson.

The appellate decision in the Lakewood case set a precedent, meaning the decision will be binding for all trial courts should the body camera sections of Colorados police reform law end up in court in the future.

I think ultimately we obtained a good published precedent that will guide hopefully not only future trial court judges, but police departments throughout the state, Zansberg said.

Several Texas families filed lawsuits Monday against Camp Mystic, alleging gross negligence in the flash floods that killed 25 young campers, two counselors and the camp's director in July.

The lawsuits seek more than $1 million each in damages following the tragedy that occurred when torrential rain caused parts of the Guadalupe River to rise from about three feet to almost 30 feet in only 45 minutes in Hunt, Texas.

In one of the legal complaints obtained by Scripps News, the families of six children Virginia Wynne Naylor, Hadley Hanna, Virginia Hollis, Jane Hunt, Lucy Dillon, and Kellyanne Lytal alleged gross negligence.

"These innocent little girls are unable to express to their parents the terror they experienced as water rose in their cabins, as they desperately tried to keep their heads above the steadily rising water, attempting to escape, and then as they were swept into raging floodwaters," the complaint said. "Their parents are left to live every single day for the rest of their lives with the intense grief and the thoughts of what their babies endured that fateful night."

In addition to including multiple photographs of the victims and their families, the legal documents contain an image that it claims was the instructions for the campers to follow in the case of a flood emergency.

The alleged "emergency instructions" told campers to remain in their cabins in case of a flood.

"To instruct children to stay in a cabin with rising flood waters was ultimately a death sentence," the lawsuit said.

Scripps News has not confirmed the authenticity of the document.

The lawsuit also alleged the defendants were negligent for:

"operating a childrens camp in a known flood hazard area without implementing adequate flood safety and evacuation procedures. housing children in cabins located in the floodplain despite knowing the areas history of catastrophic flooding. failing to evacuate children when flooding was imminent or underway, despite the obvious and extreme risk to their lives. failing to warn parents about specific and serious flood risks associated with the camps location; and failing to implement or follow any reasonable emergency response plan despite the known and extreme danger."

A separate lawsuit obtained by Scripps News was filed on behalf of another deceased camper named Eloise Peck.

"Camp Mystic's emergency preparedness was grossly inadequate and demonstrated a reckless disregard for camper safety," the suit alleged.

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"We continue to pray for the grieving families and ask for God's healing and comfort," Camp Mystic said in a statement provided to Scripps News.

We empathize with the families of the campers and counselors and all families in the Hill Country who lost loved ones in the horrific and unprecedented flood of July 4, said Jeff Ray, legal counsel for the camp, in a written statement. We intend to demonstrate and prove that this sudden surge of floodwaters far exceeded any previous flood in the area by several magnitudes, that it was unexpected and that no adequate warning systems existed in the area. We disagree with several accusations and misinformation in the legal filings regarding the actions of Camp Mystic and Dick Eastland, who lost his life as well. We will thoroughly respond to these accusations in due course.

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Camp Mystic previously announced it will reopen next summer with new safety protocols in place. An attorney for the camp noted that 166 girls were safely evacuated during the disaster.