$235,000 Settlement Is Reached in Police Raid of a Kansas Newspaper

July 6, 2024 | Source: Monroe Gallery of Photography

 Via The New York Times

July 6, 2024



A former reporter of The Marion County Record has settled a lawsuit following a raid on the weekly newspaper last year that garnered widespread attention.

--"Ms. Gruver, who left the newspaper last fall, said in a letter to the editor that she “no longer wanted to work in a town where the majority of ‘leaders’ clearly don’t respect the Fourth Estate or the U.S. Constitution,” The Record reported."


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