KMXT radio sues Kodiak for documents in police brutality case

Kodiak Public Broadcasting Corporation, licensee of public radio station KMXT, has filed suit against the City of Kodiak, seeking the release of public documents related to the detention, handcuffing, pepper-spraying and assault of Nick Pletnikoff, an autistic man, by three Kodiak Police officers in mid-September.
The lawsuit is the result of the city denying the station’s Freedom of Information Act request, citing its own investigation and privacy issues over releasing the names of the of