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Tune in to WDRB News at 4 pm for a story about another lawsuit against the station filed by the Kentucky State Police. This one involves access to "response to resistance" investigations.

KSP maintained that the investigations are "preliminary" records that WDRB (and the public) cannot see.

On appeal, the attorney general disagreed and ruled for WDRB. It was the second such ruling in favor of WDRB on this issue in recent months.

But in the same tired refrain, the case is heading to the Franklin Circuit Court. That court has consistently ruled in favor of access to investigative records like these based on established case law.

Either KSP seeks to "chill" WDRB in its use of the open records law or obstruct access to the records as long as possible in the hope that the incidents investigated are no longer newsworthy.

Kentucky Open Government Coalition co-founder and retired assistant attorney general, Amye Bensenhaver, was interviewed for the story.

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