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Kansas county to pay more than $3m over police raiding local newspaper

Marion county agrees to apologize over 2023 raid that led to national outcry over press freedom, said newspaper’s editor

The Guardian - US

Judge Orders Newspaper To Delete Editorial Critical of City Government

After a lawsuit from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, the city backed down. But it's still part of a worrying trend.

Reason

Former police chief charged in Kansas newspaper raid that sparked outrage over press freedom

Prosecutors in Marion County charged former police chief with one felony count

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An ex-Kansas police chief who led a raid on a newspaper is charged with obstruction of justice

A former central Kansas police chief who led a raid last year on a weekly newspaper has been charged with felony obstruction of justice

The Independent UK

Prosecutors plan to charge former Kansas police chief over his conduct following newspaper raid

Two special prosecutors say they plan to file an obstruction of justice charge against a former central Kansas police chief over his conduct following a raid last year on his town’s newspaper, and that the newspaper’s staff committed no crimes

The Independent UK

Former reporter settles part of her lawsuit over a police raid on a Kansas newspaper for $235,000

A former reporter for a weekly Kansas newspaper has agreed to accept $235,000 to settle part of her federal lawsuit over a police raid on the paper that made a small city the focus of a national debate over press freedoms

The Independent UK

Kansas Police Facing Lawsuit After Conducting 'Illegal' Raid Against Small-Town Paper

Last year, the offices of the Marion County Record were raided by police. A new lawsuit claims the search was illegal retaliation against the paper.

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Things to know about the resignation of a Kansas police chief who led a raid on a small newspaper

It took only a week for the central Kansas police chief who led an August raid on the local newspaper to go from looking like he had enough support at city hall to keep his job to resigning

The Independent UK

Marion County police chief resigns over controversial raid on newspaper offices

The police chief’s resignation comes after he was suspended last week amid an investigation into the raid

The Independent UK

The Kansas police chief who led the raid on a small newspaper has resigned

Gideon Cody's resignation comes days after Cody was suspended for reasons that were not made public, and weeks after a prosecutor said that there wasn't sufficient evidence to justify the search.

WEKU

Police raid on Kansas newspaper appears to have led to a file on the chief, bodycam video shows

Body camera video from a central Kansas police department’s raid of a weekly newspaper shows that an officer rifled through a desk drawer of a reporter who was investigating its chief

The Independent UK

The police chief who led a raid of a small Kansas newspaper has been suspended

The police chief who led a highly criticized raid of a small Kansas newspaper has been suspended

The Independent UK

Kansas newspaper's lawyer says police didn't follow warrant in last month's newsroom search

The lawyer for a small Kansas newspaper raided by police last month said he believes officers didn't follow the search warrant's requirements to only seize computers believed directly involved in suspected identity theft

The Independent UK

Kansas reporter files federal lawsuit against police chief who raided her newspaper's office

One of the reporters who works at the small Kansas newspaper that was raided by authorities earlier this month filed a federal lawsuit against the police chief Wednesday

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The Independent UK

Kansas authorities ordered to destroy electronic copies of newspaper’s files taken during raid

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

The Independent UK

A judge told Kansas authorities to destroy electronic copies of newspaper's files taken during raid

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

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Get out of my house!’ Video shows 98-year-old mother of Kansas newspaper publisher upset amid raid

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.

The Independent UK

Video shows Kansas newspaper owner, 98, giving police hell over ‘trespassing’ raid hours before death from stress

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

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The Independent UK

'Get out of my house!' Video shows 98-year-old mother of Kansas newspaper publisher upset amid raid

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

The Independent UK

The initial online search spurring a raid on a Kansas paper was legal, a state agency says

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 Independent UK

Court documents suggests reason for police raid of Kansas newspaper

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

The Independent UK

A raid on a Kansas newspaper likely broke the law, experts say. But which one?

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

WEKU

Judge who signed Kansas newspaper search warrant had 2 DUI arrests, reports say

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.

The Independent UK

Kansas newspaper raided by police strikes back in first print edition since search

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

Chicago Sun-Times

Kansas newspaper raids are a threat to press freedom everywhere

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.

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