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Dear Mayor Watkins:

You have asked for an attorney general's legal opinion concerning whether the classified civil service police officers of the City of Covington may form and/or join a local Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) lodge and use city payroll deductions to pay their dues, where the local lodge would be affiliated with the state lodge of the FOP and some portion of their dues would be paid to the state lodge and the state lodge has announced its endorsement of a political candidate for governor. You advised that you asked several knowledgeable persons about this situation and that you…