Law enforcement officers in Kansas raided the office of a local newspaper and a journalist’s home on Friday, prompting outrage over what First Amendment experts are calling a likely violation of federal law.

The police department in Marion, Kansas — a town of about 2,000 — raided the Marion County Record under a search warrant signed by a county judge. Officers confiscated computers, cellphones, reporting materials and other items essential to the weekly paper’s operations.

  • SCB@lemmy.world
    211·
    1 year ago

    While this is otherwise pretty great reporting, I found this sentence incredibly weird

    Without the devices, she was left unable to stream shows onto her TV or use devices if she needed help, the newspaper said.

    One of those things is significantly more important than the other, since she died shortly after this raid. Just a weird sentence overall.