A 98-year-old co-owner of a small Kansas newspaper died a day after the entire police force of her town raided the newspaper's office and the publisher's home.
A town’s entire five-officer police force and two sheriff’s deputies, seizing computers, cellphones and reporting materials from the newspaper’s office, its reporters, and the publisher’s home.
“This looks like the latest example of American law enforcement officers treating the press in a manner previously associated with authoritarian regimes,” Seth Stern, advocacy director of Freedom of the Press Foundation, a nonprofit organization that protects, defends and empowers public-interest journalism in the 21st century,
. “The anti-press rhetoric that’s become so pervasive in this country has become more than just talk and is creating a dangerous environment for journalists trying to do their jobs.”about a restaurant owner, Kari Newell who kicked reporters out of a meeting with U.S. Rep. Jake LaTurner and Newell’s lack of a driver’s license and previous drunk driving conviction. Newell has
of illegally obtaining records showing her drunk driving conviction and supplying it to the town’s Councilwoman Ruth Herbel.that police were motivated to act because of a confidential source who provided the newspaper with the documents evidencing Newell’s drunk-driving conviction and her continued use of her vehicle without a driver’s license. Meyer said that the message from the police was clear: “mind your own business or we’re going to step on you.
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