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    11 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    White said the police raid of the Marion County Record could also be a violation of the Fourth Amendment, which protects people from “unreasonable” searches and seizures by the government.

    The search warrant in Marion, signed by county magistrate judge Laura Viar on Friday morning, allowed officers to confiscate a wide range of items, from computers and hardware to reporting documents.

    But the paper, Meyer said, received this information about Newell from a separate source, independently verified it on the Kansas Department of Revenue’s Division of Vehicles website — and decided not to publish it.

    The search warrant, as published by the Kansas Reflector and verified by the police chief, specifically allowed officers to confiscate documents and records pertaining to “the identity theft of Kari Newell.”

    Jeff Kosseff, a law professor at the United States Naval Academy who specializes in the First Amendment, said he was surprised the county judge found there was sufficient probable cause to sign off on the search warrant.

    James Risen, former director of the Press Freedom Defense Fund, called the raid an “outrageous abuse of power by the local authorities.”


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