The chief of police for Marion, Kansas, has defended the raid, saying his officers would be vindicated.
News organizations from across the country, including The E.W. Scripps Company on behalf of stations in Kansas City, Missouri and Lawrence, Kansas, have collectively sent a letter to the police chief of Marion, Kansas, condemning the raid of the Marion County Record.
“Newsroom searches and seizures are among the most intrusive actions law enforcement can take with respect to the free press, and the most potentially suppressive of free speech by the press and the public,” the letter says. The owner and co-publisher of the Marion County Record, Eric Meyer, told the Kansas Reflector that authorities had taken electronic news gathering equipment, work product and other material as part of a search warrant at the offices of the paper, which are located about an hour north of Wichita.
Cody referenced an exemption in the federal Privacy Protection Act he believed allowed his officers to perform the search warrant.
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