A Cook County judge declined Wednesday to lift an order barring the release of body-camera videos and other records related to the fatal shooting of Chicago police Officer Krystal Rivera earlier this year.

Rivera was shot and killed by her partner , Officer Carlos Baker, during a June 5 foot chase into a Chatham apartment that police said was filled with drugs and guns.

An order issued just over a week later has blocked the release of “any materials” related to the criminal and disciplinary investigations stemming from the shooting.

The Chicago Sun-Times, the Better Government Association and other news organizations went to court Aug. 7, challenging the order and calling for “transparency, not secrecy.”

But Cook County Judge Barbara Lynette Dawkins ruled that the order will stay in pl

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