Spokesman Brian Evans said the Attorney General’s Office stands by the allegations in the petition. LaDuke co-founded Honor the Earth, along with Indigo Girls Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, in 1993.

A year after police shot and killed 22-year-old Desman LaDuke in Nicholasville, the release of the KSP investigative file into what happened has provided a more detailed look into what happened.

In August, a grand jury declined to indict police for the shooting. The administrator of LaDuke’s estate first sued Officer Horton less than a month after the incident.