Kansas newspaper raided by police strikes back in first print edition since search
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MARION, Kansas (AP) — Even without the computers, cellphones and other office equipment taken in a police raid, the new edition of the Marion County Record made it to newsstands Wednesday after a f…
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Police raid local newspaper office in Kansas, raising First Amendment questions
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Kansas newspaper raided by police strikes back in first print edition since search
Police in Marion, Kansas, raided the office of the Marion County Record, along with the home if its publisher, amid a dispute with a local businesswoman.
Marion County police on Saturday defended their unprecedented raid on a newspaper office and the publisher's home by pointing to a loophole in federal law that protects journalists from searches and seizures.
By Sarah Moon, CNN (CNN) — Law enforcement officers in Kansas raided the home and office of a newspaper owner, prompting a sharp rebuke from a press freedom group and raising constitutional questions far beyond the small city in the state.
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.
Police seized newspaper's computers, phones and file server and the personal cellphones of staff, based on a search warrant investigating alleged identity theft
A raid by police in Marion, Kansas on the home and office of a newspaper publisher is being blamed for contributing to the death of the publisher’s 98-year-old mother. Joan Meyer, who was a c…
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 - a move deemed by several press freedom watchdogs as a blatant violation of the U.S. Constitution’s protection of a free press.
The police raided The Marion County Record’s office on Friday, seizing computers, phones, file server, and staff personal cellphones, in what an ACLU director called “one of the most aggressive police raids of a news organization or entity in quite some time.”
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 newspaper plans to sue the police department and possibly others, its publisher and co-owner said and called the raid an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment’s free press guarantee.
MARION, Kan. (AP) — A small central Kansas police department is facing a torrent of criticism for raiding a local newspaper’s office and the home of its owner
Several press freedom watchdogs condemned the Marion Police Department's actions as a blatant violation of the U.S. Constitution’s protection for a free press.
MARION, Kan. (AP) — A small central Kansas police department is facing a torrent of criticism for raiding a local newspaper’s office and the home of its owner and publisher, seizing computers and cellphones, and, in the publisher’s view, stressing his 98-year-old mother enough to cause her weekend d…
Police in Kansas raided a local newspaper and its publisher's home on Friday, seizing computers and other records - an action that sparked outrage from First Amendment advocates and that
Police in Marion, Kan., raided the lone paper in town. Amidst a national outcry of violations of press freedom, new details suggest the police chief may have been the focus of the paper's reporting.
Newspaper raids are rare in the United States, and the one that happened at The Marion County Record last week has drawn condemnation from First Amendment advocates.
