Initial Online Search That Spurred Raid on Kansas Paper Was Legal, State Agency Says
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Kansas Department of Revenue spokesperson Zack Denney said it's legal to access the driver's license database online to check the status of a person's license using information obtained independently.
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Kansas authorities back off of newspaper raid
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A raid on a Kansas newspaper likely broke the law, experts say.
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Initial Online Search That Spurred Raid on Kansas Paper Was Legal, State Agency Says
The county attorney has directed the seized items to be returned to the newspaper and a state agency will now handle the investigation of the outlet without the information gleaned from the seizures.
Experts say a central Kansas police chief was on legally shaky ground when he ordered the raid of a weekly newspaper. A former federal prosecutor added Friday that the raid may have been a criminal civil rights violation and he’d probably have the FBI look into it.
The police chief who led the raid of a Kansas newspaper alleged in previously unreleased in 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 police chief who led the raid of a Kansas newspaper alleged in previously unreleased court documents a reporter either impersonated someone else or lied about her intentions when she obtained the driving records of a local business owner.
The police chief who led the raid of a Kansas newspaper alleged in previously unreleased court documents that a reporter either impersonated someone else or lied about her intentions when she obtai…
Ahem. One might call this “overkill” in both the figurative and literal sense, given how the shock of the raid killed its 98-year-old co-owner, Joan Meyer. Late yesterday, the Washington P...
It was the sort of conduct one usually associates with totalitarian governments: Law enforcement officers swarm a newspaper office and confiscate computers, servers and cellphones of reporters and editors. Yet this raid took place not in a faraway autocracy, but in a small town in Kansas, despite a…
Search warrant affidavit shows a Marion County Record reporter used a state online data base to gain information that appeared to be well within public access.
The police chief who led the raid of a Kansas newspaper alleged in previously unreleased, in-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 police chief who led the raid of a Kansas newspaper alleged in previously unreleased court documents a reporter either impersonated someone else or lied about her intentions when she obtained the driving records of a local business owner.
The recent raid of the Marion County Record was over claims that a reporter violated the law by obtaining the driving records of a local business owner, court documents claim.
MARION, Kan. — The initial online search of a state website that led a central Kansas police chief to raid a local weekly newspaper was legal, a spokesperson for the agency that maintains the site said Monday, as newly released video showed the publisher’s 98-year-old mother protesting a search of t…
A Kansas Department of Revenue official says that the initial search that led to police raiding a local newspaper was legal. The raid spurred a First Amendment debate across the country.
Kansas Department of Revenue spokesperson Zack Denney said it's legal to access the driver's license database online to check the status of a person's license using information obtained independently.
MARION, Kan. (AP) — The initial online search of a state website that led a central Kansas police chief to raid a local weekly newspaper was legal, a spokesperson for the agency that maintains the …
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