(ATLANTA, Ga.) — A Fulton County judge ruled on Monday that most of the report from a special grand jury looking into possible tampering in the 2020 election can remain undisclosed, for now.

The Fulton County District Attorney’s Office has assigned the special purpose grand jury to look into whether former President Donald Trump and his allies criminally interfered in the 2020 election.

WSB, its owner Cox Media Group, and more than a dozen other media outlets urged Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney to make the report public last month after the grand jury turned the report over to the District Attorney’s Office.

In a ruling Monday, McBurney said the full final report would not be made public until Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is done with her investigation.

“As a threshold matter, the Court rejects the media intervenors’ contention that the special purpose grand jury’s final report is somehow ‘court record’ and thus subject to the public’s general right of access to such things,” McBurney said in his ruling.

He did say that three parts of the report can be made public at this time.

“These three portions include the introduction and conclusion to the final report, as well as Section VIII, in which the special purpose grand jury discusses its concern that some witnesses may have lied under oath during their testimony to the grand jury,” McBurney said. “While publication may not be convenient for the pacing of the District Attorney’s investigation, the compelling public interest in these proceedings and the unquestionable value and importance of transparency require their release.”

Those parts of the report will be made public on Feb. 16 to allow the DA’s office time to go over any parts they feel need to be redacted and to figure out the logistics of how to publish the sections of the report.

In a statement, Willis said: “I believe Judge McBurney’s order is legally sound and consistent with my request. I have no plans to appeal today’s order.”

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