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ST. LOUIS • Police officials fighting to keep the public from seeing records of their investigation of the 2006 World Series ticket scandal are breaking the law and flirting with contempt of court, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union complained Wednesday.

A years-long legal battle added a new skirmish in court in St. Louis even though a judge ruled last year that the Board of Police Commissioners had no grounds to refuse disclosure.

At issue is the breadth of the use of tickets seized by police as evidence from scalpers. Some officers and supervisors were disciplined — but none fired — after about 30 tickets were used by relatives or friends and then quietly returned to the evidence room.

Last year, Circuit Judge Philip Heagney cited the state sunshine law and wrote in an order, "It is time for the Board to obey the law." He also wrote that the board "seems determined to keep the public from learning substantive information which has been uncovered."

Heagney said then that all internal affairs records should be made public. The department did not appeal the order.