County to Pay $3M Over Police Raid on Marion County Record, Newspaper Kansas county agrees to apologize for raid

County to Pay $3M Over Police Raid on Newspaper
Kansas county agrees to apologize for raid on small-town Marion County Record

A rural Kansas county has agreed to pay a little more than $3 million and apologize over a law enforcement raid on a small-town weekly newspaper in August 2023 that sparked an outcry over press freedom, the paper's editor said Tuesday.

Marion County was among multiple defendants in five federal lawsuits filed by the company that publishes the Marion County Record, its publisher, the estate of his late mother, who was the paper's co-owner, employees of the paper, and a former Marion City Council member whose home also was raided.

https://www.newser.com/story/378503/county-to-pay-3m-over-police-raid-on-newspaper.html