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Two special prosecutors have issued a final report on the raid on the Marion County Record and plan to file charges against the former police chief. Officers raided the newspaper’s offices and ...

On Monday, Meyer shared his feelings on the 124-page report and investigation into last summer’s raid. “It is clear from their investigation that they knew mere days after the raid that we had ...

The case stemmed from a raid that took place on Aug. 11, 2023, at the Marion County Record newspaper, a weekly publication located in the city of Marion in east-central Kansas.

Journalists at the Marion County Record worked late into the night to publish their first issue since the widely-criticized raid. “SEIZED … but not silenced,” its headline read.

The raid put Marion, a town of about 1,900 residents about 150 miles (241 kilometers) southwest of Kansas City, at the center of a national debate over press freedom.

MARION, Kan. — 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 community the ...

A year after he led a fateful raid on the office of the Marion County, Kansas, Record newspaper and its publisher’s home, former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody was finally charged with a crime ...

The widely criticized raid of a newspaper in Marion County could result in taxpayers footing the bill if there’s a successful federal lawsuit saying police violated the journalists’ First ...

If you read special prosecutors’ report about last year’s raid on the Marion County Record newspaper, the abuse of power by law enforcement sounds like an immaculate deception. Officials who ...

According to the report, Marion police officer Zach Hudlin called the state agency to ask about their system on Aug. 7. 2023. ... Marion newspaper raid report by The Kansas City Star on Scribd.

Dozens of Kansas lawmakers launched an effort Tuesday to direct the state’s attorney general to release information from an investigation into a police raid last year on a weekly newspaper, but ...