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Community Voices August 12, 2023 - 10:15 am

Clay Wirestone: In Marion County newspaper raid, a grim threat to Kansans’ First Amendment rights (Column)

by Clay Wirestone, Kansas Reflector

”The outrageous law enforcement assault on the Marion County Record newspaper raises a veritable forest of red flags,” Clay Wirestone writes in this Kansas Reflector column.

State News August 11, 2023 - 4:32 pm

Police stage ‘chilling’ raid on Marion County newspaper, seizing computers, records and cellphones

by Sherman Smith, Sam Bailey, Rachel Mipro, Tim Carpenter, Kansas Reflector

In an unprecedented raid Friday, local law enforcement seized computers, cellphones and reporting materials from the Marion County Record office, the newspaper’s reporters, and the publisher’s home.