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A judge ordered Kansas authorities to destroy all the electronic copies they made of a small newspaper’s files when police raided its office this month

A video released by the Marion County Record shows Joan Meyer confronting police who raided her home Aug. 11. Meyer died the next day. Her son, the newspaper’s editor, believes the stress of the raid contributed to her death.

‘This was extremely upsetting to Joan and caused her to remain angry and upset throughout the day and night,’ coroner’s report states

Newly released video shows the 98-year-old mother of a Kansas newspaper publisher confronting police officers as they searched her home in a raid that has drawn national scrutiny

A Kansas Department of Revenue spokesperson says the initial online search of a state website that led a central Kansas police chief to raid a local weekly newspaper was legal

The police chief who led the raid of a Kansas newspaper has alleged in previously unreleased court documents that a reporter either impersonated someone else or lied about her intentions when she obtained the driving records of a local business owner

Experts say a central Kansas police chief was on legally shaky ground when he ordered the raid of a weekly newspaper

The Marion County Record now has all of the devices police seized in a raid. Local newspapers report that the judge who signed the search warrant had two drunken driving arrests within a year.

Even without the computers, cellphones and other equipment taken in a police raid, the new edition of the Marion County Record made it to newsstands Wednesday after a frenzied scramble by the Kansas weekly newspaper’s small staff

That a judge would sign off on a search warrant allowing the preposterous and possibly illegal raids exemplifies just how quickly the First Amendment rights of journalists can be trampled on.

The newspaper’s publisher, Eric Meyer, says the paper’s aggressive coverage of local police and politics was the impetus for the raid.