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Police Raid On Kansas Newspaper Offices Leads To Reporter’s $235K Settlement

The settlement stemmed from a police raid on a Kansas weekly newspaper.

A former reporter at The Marion County Record, a Kansas weekly newspaper, has reached a $235,000 settlement as part of a lawsuit she filed over a search by police. The local prosecutor, Joel Ensey, said in a statement after the raid that after reviewing the police force’s application for a warrant, he had “come to the conclusion that insufficient evidence exists to establish a legally sufficient nexus between this alleged crime and the places searched and the items seized.” — along with two sheriff’s deputies came to the Record offices and took “everything we have,” the newspaper’s publisher and co-owner Eric Meyer told the Kansas Reflector, a nonprofit news site.

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