WHAS 11 News requested the capitol sign in sheets for Jan. 7 and 9 after learning that the Lexington Herald-Leader had received sign in sheets showing casino operator Bill Yung may have been in the capitol building, in the governor's office, on one of those days. But in response to my open records request, the Kentucky State Police said they couldn't locate the visitor sign in logs for those January days and neither could the Finance Cabinet, which had been voluntarily storing them.

At the end of each week, the Facilities Security guards take the sign in logs down to the capitol building superintendent's office. She puts them in boxes and stores them on a shelf. When I looked in the box with January's logs in it, January 7, 8 and 9 were missing. A spokesman for the Kentucky State Police says he has no idea where the missing documents might be and a spokeswoman for the Finance Cabinet says the same thing.

Apparently they went missing after the State Police sent the Herald-Leader about a month-and-a-half worth of sign in sheets, including January 7-9. The H-L agreed to give me copies of those days. And sure enough, someone named Bill Yung signed in on January 9 and listed his destination as "gov". Steve Beshear said today that he has not met with the controversial casino operator since he's been in office and has no idea who Yung might have been meeting with on January 9. A number of horse industry folks including Keeneland's Nick Nicholson and Churchill Downs' Steve Sexton checked in to the capitol building about the same time as Yung on the same day.

State Police spokesman Lt. Phil Crumpton says he believes the sign in logs were just misplaced and it was an innocent mistake. He says the KSP is concerned that any public records would be lost and will likely institute a system that will require anyone who handles the visitor logs to sign a receipt, indicating that they've got them. Crumpton says that will create a chain of command for those public records.

I'll hang on to the visitor logs and I suspect the H-L will too because when the final chapter is written on the casino legislation and Steve Beshear's years as governor, it might be interesting to look back and see who was meeting with folks in the governor's office on Jan. 7-9, 2008.

Good question by reader: No the F.B.I. doesn't have them.