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.
I don’t think law enforcement is going to like the outcome of this…
EM: So the backstory that we haven’t told, because we don’t wanna get in trouble, is that we’ve been investigating the police chief [Gideon Cody]. When he was named Chief just two months ago, we got an outpouring of calls from his former co-workers making a wide array of allegations against him saying that he was about to be demoted at his previous job and that he retired to avoid demotion and punishment over sexual misconduct charges and other things.
We had half a dozen or more different anonymous sources calling in about that. Well, we never ran that because we never could get any of them to go on the record, and we never could get his personnel file. But the allegations—including the identities of who made the allegations—were on one of the computers that got seized. I may be paranoid that this has anything to do with it, but when people come and seize your computer, you tend to be a little paranoid.
I’m hijacking the top comment to add in some sad news from The Daily Beast:
[The] 98-year-old [newspaper] co-owner has now died after she was left “stressed beyond her limits.” Joan Meyer “collapsed Saturday afternoon and died at her home,” the Marion County Record reported, noting that she had been “in good health for her age."
This is the important bit: https://thehandbasket.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-the-newspaper
I’m hijacking the top comment to add in some sad news from The Daily Beast:
RIP, Joan.
Yeah, his mom was waiting on her meals on wheels delivery when they busted into the house and stole her stuff.
Hard drives nowadays should always be encrypted