Marion County Record Newspaper Raid Should Concern Us All ~

There was “insufficient evidence” to justify a police raid Aug. 11 on the Marion County Record, a small newspaper in Kansas, and the home of its co-owner, a Kansas county attorney said Wednesday – echoing officially what the Record and more than 30 journalism groups said days earlier.

The newspaper was raided Friday by all five officers of the town’s police force based on a search warrant that has since been withdrawn, raising a storm over how and when police can do that.

Apart from real questions and genuine emotions surrounding a police raid of this or any newsroom, what was the core First Amendment issue here?

Continue reading here: Via FreedomForm.org; by Gene Policinski, senior fellow for the First Amendment at the Freedom Forum.