A midcoast newspaper is going to court to seek records from the Waldo County Sheriff’s Office related to the teen who allegedly killed Sunshine “Sunny” Stewart while she was out paddleboarding in Union this summer.

The Midcoast Villager is seeking records of any calls police made in the two and a half years before the killing to the Frankfort home where the suspect, 17-year-old Deven Young, had lived with his family.

In a legal appeal filed Friday in Kennebec County Superior Court, the Villager accused the sheriff’s office of failing to adequately respond to information requests made under Maine’s Freedom of Access Act.

In response to those requests, the sheriff’s office has “failed even to confirm whether responsive records exist, much less provide all or any of them — even in redac

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