Kansas

Raid on small-town Kansas newspaper draws global attention, condemnation, ominous letter from attorney

Marion, Kansas officials employed “Hitler tactics” in raiding the local newspaper as if it were “a drug cartel or a street gang,” the publisher’s lawyer writes in a… Read More

Kansas

‘Totally unreasonable’: Police raid on Marion County newspaper raises First and Fourth Amendment concerns

(The Sentinel) — The Aug. 11 raid on the newsroom of the Marion County Record and its publisher’s home and confiscation of computers, cell phones and other equipment is seen by… Read More

Opinion

‘You better have a damn good reason’: Astonishing police raid on small Kansas newspaper sends First Amendment chill across nation

I asked a different newspaper publisher what he thought of the already-infamous law enforcement raid on the small-town Marion County Record in central Kansas on Friday. Is it as… Read More