ATLANTA -- One month after a shooting rampage at the courthouse left three dead, Fulton County Sheriff Myron Freenman on Monday named a panel that will examine security at the downtown Atlanta building.

The 19-member task force includes three Superior Court judges, Wendy Shoob, T. Jackson and Penny Brown Reynolds, Police Chief Richard Pennington and several civic activists.

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Freeman, who was elected into office last year and took over the department in January, has been the target of criticisms by some who have said he has been slow to act in naming such a panel.

However, Freeman said the delay has been caused partly by an inability of some agencies, including the U.S. Marshals Office and the National Sheriff's Association, to confirm their participation on the panel.

The sheriff's office appointed the task force to examine all facets of courthouse security and plans to withhold no information, even if it may suggest negligence or shortcomings within the department, said sheriff's spokeswoman Sgt. Nikita Hightower.

"We're not going into this investigation trying to cover up," Hightower said. "We're going into this investigation to find out what happened, how it happened."

Sheriff Myron Freeman echoed that promise in a prepared statement: "We will hold nothing back, and we will let the chips fall where they may."

The sheriff's office already has taken some measures to beef up courthouse security.

Specially trained officers escort high-risk prisoners into the courthouse; the department has decreased the number of inmates transported in a day from 400 to 225; metal detectors have been installed at the jail; and 40 officers have been added to the courthouse security detail, according to a press release.

These and other reasons are why the task force took more than a month to establish, Hightower said.

"We've buried officers. We've had funeral after funeral. We've put things in place, immediate steps toward courthouse security," she said. "It's not that it took a long time."

Freeman maintained in the press release that his officers complied with all protocols regarding courthouse safety, but added that the task force's purpose "will be to thoroughly review those policies and practices to see if they have outlived their usefulness."

The task force appointees include: Atlanta Police Chief Richard Pennington; the Rev. Daryl Elligan, president of Concerned Black Clergy; Fulton County Superior Court Judges Wendy Shoob and T. Jackson Bedford; retired Scotland Yard Cmdr. Les Poole; and Dale Nesbit, president of the North Fulton Homeowner's Association.

The sheriff hopes the diverse group will be able to provide a variety of perspectives, Hightower said.

The judges have authorized their own outside experts to look at security as well.

Meanwhile, a decision on whether a judge will release the entire contents of a report that chronicled the shooting rampage is expected to come any day now.

Superior Court Judge Hilton Fuller said last week that he wanted to perform due dilligence before deciding whether to unseal the complete contents of the report. He did, however, release some portions of the report.

The report showed that Brian Nichols, the defendant who was on trial for rape and is now accused in a deadly courthouse rampage was able to enter the chambers of the judge slain in the attack and hold the occupants hostage because the door was unlocked and a buzzer entry system was not activated.

After handcuffing a lawyer, deputy and an unspecified number of other people, suspect Brian Nichols entered the courtroom where his trial was to resume later in the day and killed Judge Rowland Barnes and his court reporter, Julie Brandau, the report says.

The report on the March 11 attack at the Fulton courthouse also says that it took a court officer 21 minutes to reach a deputy whom Nichols allegedly overpowered and stole her gun in order to start the killing spree. Outside the courthouse, sheriff's deputy Hoyt Teasley was killed. The next day, federal agent David Wilhelm was gunned down in Buckhead.

The 15 pages of the report that were released include a timeline of the attack, an incident narrative and an executive summary. Witness statements, which make up the bulk of the report, remained sealed. The sections of the report released do not make recommendations for improving security at the Fulton County Courthouse.