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

Newspapers & magazines | The Guardian · Lucy Campbell and agency · last updated

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

A rural county in Kansas has agreed to pay more than $3m and apologize over a raid by police on a small-town weekly newspaper in August 2023 that sparked a national outcry over press freedom, the paper’s editor said on Tuesday.

Eric Meyer, the editor and publisher of the Marion County Record, told the Associated Press he is hoping the size of the payment is large enough to discourage similar actions against news organizations in the future.

 

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