A corrected version of the recently amended Virginia Tech Review Panel report was released to The Roanoke Times by family members of the dead and wounded this afternoon.
 
The families received an advance copy from Gov. Tim Kaine's office today.
 
Tech officials, police and families of the dead and survivors had asked for various corrections, additions and clarifications to both the original report and the addendum ordered by Kaine and released in November.
 
"We're pleased that the errors in the corrected report are corrected," Tech spokesman Larry Hincker said this afternoon.
 
Hincker said he had not had a chance to review the corrected document in full.
 
Tech took issue with two major additions to the report released in November that said President Charles Steger's office was locked down following the shootings in West Ambler Johnson. Officials have denied that allegation.
 
The university also disputed assertions that some policy group members had notified their families about the West Ambler Johnston shootings but did not notify the campus community until two hours after the fact. Officials said two support staff had mentioned the shootings to family members in the course of normal conversations.
 
According to Tech, one staff member was calling to wake her son and told him to go to classes at Tech. Another staff member was with her mother when she was called into work because of the shootings.
 
Also among the corrections were descriptions of the experience and training of Virginia Tech and Blacksburg police. The addendum asserted that neither agency had experience in homicide investigation. Both agencies had training in homicide investigation. Tech police had investigated a homicide in 1984. Blacksburg police had investigated five homicides between 2005 and 2007.
 
Some family members have also released their own "supplement" to the panel report, titled "Forever in Our Hearts," that offers clarifications and expansions on key parts of the original report.
 
Asked about the supplement Tuesday afternoon, Kaine said: "We are certainly providing it to TriData. I'm am not expecting that TriData will necessarily change (the addendum). Because many aspects of the (families') supplemental report were things that they did suggest to TriData.
 
"TriData analyzed what corrections to the report should be made, and they made the ones they thought were justified. I mean, we had nothing to do with any discussion with TriData about which suggestions they would accept or not. Certainly as a matter of courtesy to the families and to TriData, we'll provide that to TriData. I do not see any additional step for TriData to take at this point," Kaine said.
 
Production of the official review panel report and subsequent revisions have cost the state $626,000.

A final meeting between Kaine and the families promised in a settlement agreement is scheduled for Saturday.