Virginia’s governor met on Saturday with relatives of 20 of the students and faculty members who were killed during the Virginia Tech massacre and promised them more access to a commission he appointed to investigate the shootings, but he did not promise to reserve a place for them on the panel, The Washington Post reported. The membership of the Virginia Tech Review Panel “is going to stay as it is,” Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, a Democrat, said after the meeting, “but I think we heard loud and clear the families want some different ways to interact with the panel.”

At a meeting of the commission earlier this month, relatives said they were “angry about being ostracized” from the panel. After Saturday’s meeting, relatives declined to speak about their talk with the governor, focusing instead on the loved ones they had lost. Earlier in the day, a consultant for the family members criticized Virginia Tech for not having done more to prevent the gunman’s rampage. —Charles Huckabee