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Kansas reporter reaches $235,000 settlement with police chief who led newspaper raid
5 months ago

Kansas reporter reaches $235,000 settlement with police chief who led newspaper raid

Raw Story  

LAWRENCE — Deb Gruver felt heartbroken and violated when police raided the Marion County Record last year. Gruver said she is still working out the details of the scholarship, but she wants an annual award of perhaps $5,000 to go to a first-generation college student in Kansas who has “overcome extraordinary challenges in their life.” “I don’t really care about …

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Things to know about the resignation of a Kansas police chief who led a raid on a small newspaper
1 year, 2 months ago

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

Associated Press  

TOPEKA, Kan. — A Kansas police chief who led an August raid on a small weekly newspaper seemed to have the support of most city leaders in the weeks since the search, despite public outcry and calls for his resignation. Then body camera video of the Aug. 11 search of the Marion County Record was released — and it appeared …

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Opinion: Claiming a ‘computer crime’ shouldn’t give police a free pass to raid newspapers
1 year, 3 months ago

Opinion: Claiming a ‘computer crime’ shouldn’t give police a free pass to raid newspapers

LA Times  

Local authorities seized computers and cellphones from the home and office of the publisher of the Marion County Record in Kansas. Instead, the Marion case highlights a separate, systemic threat to press freedom: vague and sweeping computer crime laws, which exist in all 50 states. The search warrant in that case listed violations of statutes covering identity theft and “unlawful …

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A central Kansas police force sparked a firestorm by raiding a newspaper and the publisher’s home
1 year, 4 months ago

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

Associated Press  

MARION, Kan. — 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 death. A search warrant tied Friday morning raids, led by Marion Police Chief …

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Kansas newspaper raid a grim threat to First Amendment rights
1 year, 4 months ago

Kansas newspaper raid a grim threat to First Amendment rights

Raw Story  

The outrageous law enforcement assault on the Marion County Record newspaper raises a veritable forest of red flags. NNA stands by its community newspapers and calls upon top officials in Kansas to immediately return any property seized by law enforcement so the newspaper can proceed with its work.” An attack on a newspaper office through an illegal search is not …

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Publisher's mother dies from 'shock and grief' as police defend 'brazen' raid on Kansas newspaper
1 year, 4 months ago

Publisher's mother dies from 'shock and grief' as police defend 'brazen' raid on Kansas newspaper

Raw Story  

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. “Basically,” Eric Meyer said, “all the law enforcement officers on duty in Marion County, Kansas, descended on our offices today and seized our server and computers and personal …

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Rhode Islanders may have been too excited to fill out census
2 years, 7 months ago

Rhode Islanders may have been too excited to fill out census

Associated Press  

Rhode Island’s efforts to encourage people to fill out the 2020 census may have worked too well, with the U.S. Census Bureau releasing a survey Thursday showing an overcount that saved a congressional seat. “It could be that getting people excited to participate resulted in them filling it out twice,” said Marion, executive director of the government watchdog group Common …

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