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Marion mayor defends police in newspaper raid: ‘I’m not sure exactly what they did wrong’
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#MarionKansas #MarionKS #Marion #PressFreedom #Kansas #Midwest #KS #KSPol #WichitaKS #WichitaKansas #IndependentJournalism
Read more at: https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article278775244.html#storylink=cpy
https://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article278775244.html?taid=64f38ae825b3120001dad921
How a small-town feud in Kansas sent a shock through American journalism #marionkansas #firstamendment #newspapers #kansas #cartoons
Sharing YouTube playlist for Aug. 2023 police raid of #MarionCountyRecord #MarionRecord newspaper office and #MarionKansas homes of co-owners, reporter and vice mayor.
#KansasShieldLaw
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJgHg9KKmcWCFoSpaBcBxZeW2KNLTbPv5
The Raid on the ‘Marion County Record’ Is Only the Beginning
Allison Hantschel, DAME
Aug 22, 2023
The Right's war on the fourth estate is nothing new. But when cops raided a rural Kansas newspaper office and its editors’ homes over an investigation in progress, a new horrifying precedent was set.
https://www.damemagazine.com/2023/08/22/the-raid-on-the-marion-daily-record-is-only-the-beginning/
#MarionCountyRecord #MarionKansas
Judge who approved raid on Kansas newspaper has history of DUI arrests
Story by Chance Swaim, The Wichita Eagle
Judge Laura Viar, who was appointed on Jan. 1 to fill a vacant 8th Judicial District magistrate seat, was arrested at least twice for DUI in two different Kansas counties in 2012...
The first arrest — in Coffey County... southeast of her home in Council Grove, on Jan. 25, 2012 — has not been reported.
#JudgeViar #LauraViar #LauraAllen #MarionKansas #CoffeyCounty #WichitaEagle
Newsroom raids are rare in the United States, said Lynn Oberlander, a First Amendment attorney.
"It's very rare because it's illegal," Oberlander said. "It doesn't happen very often because most organizations understand that it's illegal."
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/14/1193676139/newspaper-marion-county-kansas-police-raid-first-amendment
This should be a shocking story. Unfortunately, feels kind of on point.
"What has remained unreported until now is that, prior to the raids, the newspaper had been actively investigating Gideon Cody, Chief of Police for the city of Marion. They’d received multiple tips alleging he’d retired from his previous job to avoid demotion and punishment over alleged sexual misconduct charges."
https://thehandbasket.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-the-newspaper
Police questioned over legality of Kansas newspaper raid in which computers, phones seized
https://apnews.com/article/marion-kansas-newspaper-raid-aca057365ea3925328a69acd615c9893
#KansasNewspaperRaid #PoliceQuestioned #LegalityOfRaid #ComputersSeized #PhonesSeized #MarionKansas #Politics #News
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#MarionKansas side dramas:
a) councilwoman Ruth Herbel was "skeptical" about hiring ex-KC cop captain Cody
b) after Cody in his new job, #MarionCountyRecord got some tips suggesting Cody fled that job due to sexual misconduct charges
c) mayor and treasurer's family part of sus recall campaign vs Herbel https://ballotpedia.org/Ruth_Herbel_recall,_Marion,_Kansas_(2023)
#Timeline breakdown: Marion police raid newspaper office, owner’s home https://www.kwch.com/2023/08/14/timeline-breakdown-marion-police-raid-newspaper-office-owners-home/
#MarionKansas #MarionCountyRecord
NYT: Raid of Small Kansas Newspaper Raises Free Press Concerns
The search of the Marion County Record led to the seizure of computers, servers and cellphones of reporters and editors... tip came after a meet-and-greet on Aug. 2 for congressman Jake LaTurner, at Kari’s Kitchen, owned by Kari Newell... asked the police chief to remove Mr. Meyer and a reporter, Phyllis Zorn, from the event, saying that she did not want them to attend.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/business/media/kansas-marion-newspaper-police-raid.html
#MarionCountyRecord #MarionKansas
