Kansas authorities should ruin all electronic copies they made of a little paper’s files when cops robbed its workplace this month, a judge bought Tuesday, almost 2 weeks after computersystems and cellularphones took in the search were returned.
The Aug. 11 searches of the Marion County Record’s workplace and the houses of its publisher and a City Council member haveactually been greatly slammed, putting Marion, a main Kansas town of about 1,900 individuals, at the center of a dispute over the press defenses used by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Attorney Bernie Rhodes, who represents the paper, stated a judge bought authorities to hand over those electronic records and damage any copies they have of them along with all photos that officers took throughout the raids.
The regional districtattorney and constable concurred privateinvestigators shouldn’t keep that proof, however Rhodes firmlyinsisted on a court order to file it. It won’t be clear what files were on the drive till Rhodes gets a copy.
Authorities returned the computersystems and mobilephones they took throughout the raids after the districtattorney chose there was inadequate proof to validate their seizure. A coupleof days lateron the paper discovered from court files about the thumb drive with an electronic copy of thousands of files taken from its computersystems. It wasn’t divulged in the preliminary search warrant stock.
It’s not clear what extra actions authorities may take. Neither city authorities nor the Kansas Bureau