![]() ![]() The Kansas Press Association organized the T-shirt sale to show support for the newspaper. The plain black shirts feature the headline in block letters across the front along with the date of the raids. Supporters of the small Kansas newspaper can now order T-shirts emblazoned with the Marion County Record’s defiant headline “SEIZED but not silenced” that led its front page in the first edition after the raids. Insurance companies for the city and the county have hired lawyers to prepare for possible lawsuits, including one promised by the newspaper’s publisher. A spokeswoman for the KBI said it’s impossible to predict how long that agency’s investigation will take. Neither city officials nor the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, which is looking into reporters’ actions, are saying much.Ĭity Council members refused to discuss the raids at their meeting last week, and the mayor didn’t answer text message questions Tuesday about whether the raids will be on the next agenda. It's not clear what additional steps authorities might take. ![]() It wasn’t disclosed in the initial search warrant inventory. A few days later the newspaper learned from court documents about the thumb drive with an electronic copy of thousands of files taken from its computers. It won’t be clear what files were on the drive until Rhodes gets a copy.Īuthorities returned the computers and cellphones they took during the raids after the prosecutor decided there was insufficient evidence to justify their seizure. The local prosecutor and sheriff agreed investigators shouldn’t keep that evidence, but Rhodes insisted on a court order to document it. Constitution.Īttorney Bernie Rhodes, who represents the newspaper, said a judge ordered authorities to hand over those electronic records and destroy any copies they have of them along with all photographs that officers took during the raids. The August 11 searches of the Marion County Record's office and the homes of its publisher and a City Council member have been sharply criticized, putting Marion, a central Kansas town of about 1,900 people, at the center of a debate over the press protections offered by the First Amendment to the U.S. UNDATED (AP) - Kansas authorities must destroy all electronic copies they made of a small newspaper's files when police raided its office this month, a judge ordered Tuesday, nearly two weeks after computers and cellphones seized in the search were returned. Judge Tells Kansas Authorities to Destroy Electronic Copies of Newspaper's Files Taken During Raid ![]()
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