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Kansas county to pay more than $3m over police raiding local newspaper

Marion county agrees to apologize over 2023 raid that led to national outcry over press freedom, said newspaper’s editor

The Guardian - US · Nov 11, 2025

Brickbat: Hot Off the Press

City officials in Marion, Kansas, have agreed to pay $235,000 to remove the former police chief from a federal lawsuit brought by Deb Gruver, a former reporter with the Marion County Record. Last year, police raided the newspaper's offices, seizing computers, the newspaper's file server, and even personal cellphones. Police…

Reason · Jul 19, 2024

Kansas Police Facing Lawsuit After Conducting 'Illegal' Raid Against Small-Town Paper

Last year, the offices of the Marion County Record were raided by police. A new lawsuit claims the search was illegal retaliation against the paper.

Reason · Apr 3, 2024

The initial online search spurring a raid on a Kansas paper was legal, a state agency says

A Kansas Department of Revenue spokesperson says the initial online search of a state website that led a central Kansas police chief to raid a local weekly newspaper was legal

The Independent UK · Aug 21, 2023

Court documents suggests reason for police raid of Kansas newspaper

The police chief who led the raid of a Kansas newspaper has alleged in previously unreleased court documents that a reporter either impersonated someone else or lied about her intentions when she obtained the driving records of a local business owner

The Independent UK · Aug 20, 2023

Judge who signed Kansas newspaper search warrant had 2 DUI arrests, reports say

The Marion County Record now has all of the devices police seized in a raid. Local newspapers report that the judge who signed the search warrant had two drunken driving arrests within a year.

WEKU · Aug 17, 2023

Kansas newspaper raided by police to have seized items returned

Police raid on office of Marion County Record drew widespread condemnation by press freedom advocates

The Guardian - US · Aug 16, 2023

Kansas prosecutor finds ‘insufficient evidence’ for newspaper raid that drew international backlash

The small-town newspaper’s co-owner collapsed and died one day after a widely condemned raid

The Independent UK · Aug 16, 2023

Kansas newspaper raided by police strikes back in first print edition since search

Even without the computers, cellphones and other equipment taken in a police raid, the new edition of the Marion County Record made it to newsstands Wednesday after a frenzied scramble by the Kansas weekly newspaper’s small staff

The Independent UK · Aug 16, 2023

Kansas newspaper raids are a threat to press freedom everywhere

That a judge would sign off on a search warrant allowing the preposterous and possibly illegal raids exemplifies just how quickly the First Amendment rights of journalists can be trampled on.

Chicago Sun-Times · Aug 16, 2023