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City officials in Marion, Kansas, have agreed to pay $235,000 to remove the former police chief from a federal lawsuit brought by Deb Gruver, a former reporter with the Marion County Record. Last year, police raided the newspaper's offices, seizing computers, the newspaper's file server, and even personal cellphones. Police…

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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.

Reason

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

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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

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

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

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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

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.

WEKU

Kansas newspaper raided by police to have seized items returned

Police raid on office of Marion County Record drew widespread condemnation by press freedom advocates

The Guardian - US

Kansas prosecutor finds ‘insufficient evidence’ for newspaper raid that drew international backlash

The small-town newspaper’s co-owner collapsed and died one day after a widely condemned raid

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

The Independent UK

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.

Chicago Sun-Times

Kansas law enforcement investigating police raid at small-town newspaper office

A raid of a small-town paper’s office has sparked widespread criticism from publishers and civil rights groups

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Chicago Sun-Times

Kansas police and a small newspaper are at the center of a 1st Amendment fight after a newsroom raid

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

The Independent UK

Why is a police raid on a newspaper in Kansas so unusual?

Tensions between public officials and the press are hardly unusual

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EXPLAINER: Why is a police raid on a newspaper in Kansas so unusual?

Tensions between public officials and the press are hardly unusual

Reason

Owner of Kansas Newspaper Dies Amid 'Shock and Grief' After Police Raid

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The Independent UK

Press freedom groups blast police raid of Kansas newspaper office: ‘Everyone involved should be ashamed’

The paper condemned ‘Gestapo’ tactics after a police raid targeted journalists who investigated a local restaurant owner and police chief. The following day, the co-owner collapsed and died. Alex Woodward reports

WEKU

A police raid of a Kansas newsroom raises alarms about violations of press freedom

Law enforcement officers raided the office of a local newspaper and a journalist's home. First Amendment experts are calling it a likely violation of federal law.

The Independent UK

A central Kansas police force comes under constitutional criticism after raiding a newspaper

A small central Kansas police department is facing a torrent of criticism after it raided the offices of a local newspaper and the home of its publisher and owner

Chicago Sun-Times

A central Kansas police force sparked a firestorm by raiding a newspaper and the publisher’s home

The 98-year-old co-owner of a newspaper raided by police died from the stress of the incident, according to son, the paper’s publisher. Press freedom advocates condemned the raid as a violation of the U.S. Constitution.

The Independent UK

Police questioned over legality of Kansas newspaper raid in which computers, phones seized

A small central Kansas police department is facing a firestorm of criticism after it raided the offices of a local newspaper and the home of its publisher and owner

The Independent UK

Press freedom groups blast police raid of Kansas newspaper office: ‘Everyone involved should be ashamed’

The Guardian - US

Office and homes of reporters at local Kansas newspaper raided by police

City’s entire five-officer force seize computers, cellphones and reporting materials from offices of local paper

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