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This Kansas case has to be collusion between the police and the Magistrate who signed off the search warrant. I would think this is a clear violation of the 1st and 4th Amendments.
Another case against a journalist is the Julian Assange of Wikileak case:
thehill.com/policy/international/4151853-caroline-kennedy...
Caroline Kennedy sees possibility of ‘resolution’ in Assange case
Democracy Now report on the search and seizure of the Kansas newspaper office:
A 4 minute video released by the newspaper on the police search:
Marion police downloaded, kept copy of raided Kasas newspaper's computers - KSHB
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Kansas Bureau of Investigation looking into possible data breach in Kansas newspaper case
Magistrate Judge Laura Viar signed the search warrant that Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody used to seize the newspaper’s equipment, records about the restaurant owner, utility bills and other materials.
State and federal law protects journalists and news organizations from police raids. Journalism advocates couldn’t find another example of police raiding a newsroom anywhere in the United States.
It still isn’t clear what evidence Cody provided to support the search warrant, or why Viar signed it.
Topeka resident Keri Strahler has filed a formal complaint against Viar with the Kansas Commission on Judicial Conduct, which has the authority to investigate allegations of judicial misconduct or disability in state courts.
apnews.com/article/newspaper-raid-kansas-affidavit-07d9c8...
Court documents suggest reason for police raid of Kansas newspaper
www.kshb.com/news/local-news/marion-county-attorney-withd...
Marion County attorney withdraws search warrant against Kansas newspaper; returns items
County attorney cites 'insufficient evidence' for search, seizure
Posted at 12:01 PM, Aug 16, 2023
and last updated 4:39 PM, Aug 16, 2023
MARION, Kan. — A search warrant that cleared the way for the raid of a Kansas newspaper last Friday has been withdrawn, KSHB 41 I-Team reporter Jessica McMaster learned late Wednesday morning.
Marion County Attorney Joel Ensey withdrew the warrant that served as the basis for the raid of the Marion County Record by the Marion Police Department last Friday.
nypost.com/2023/08/17/judge-who-signed-marion-county-reco...
Kansas judge who signed off on ‘Gestapo-style’ raid of small-town newspaper has two DUIs
A Kansas judge who signed off on the ‘Gestapo-style’ raid of the Marion County Record reportedly has two DUIs — raising questions about its possible impact on the jurist’s decision.
In 2012, the Eighth Judicial District Magistrate judge reportedly completed a program after her own DUI arrest in Coffey County — and then was busted seven months later for a DUI in Morris County.
She also had a suspended license, according to KWCH.
www.kansas.com/opinion/editorials/article278199777.html
Raid on Kansas newspaper is an intolerable overreach by police | Editorial
By The Wichita Eagle and Kansas City Star Editorial Boards
August 13, 2023 11:29 AM
Marion city police and the Marion County sheriff’s office did something on Friday that no government agency in America has any right to do.
They shut down a newspaper.
Those agencies raided the offices of the Marion County Record and the home of its owners, Eric Meyer and his mother, Joan. Police seized company-owned and personal computers and cell phones, and photographed personal documents on tables in the Meyer home.
The police action, involving at least four city officers and two sheriff’s deputies, also seized similar equipment and materials from the city’s vice mayor, Ruth Herbel.
www.kshb.com/news/local-news/investigations/marion-police...
Posted at 3:14 PM, Aug 13, 2023
KANSAS CITY, Mo — The police chief who helped execute a search warrant on a Kansas newspaper's office on Friday recently retired from the Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department.
Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody served as a KCPD captain after receiving a promotion in December 2014, according to KCPD's internal newsletter, The Informant.
Cody's last day with the department was April 22, 2023, according to a list of retirements posted on the Kansas City Police Employees' Retirement Systems website.
The following month, the Marion County Record reported the Marion City Council was in the final stages of hiring Cody as the city's next police chief.
Now, less than five months on the job, the Marion Police Department led by Cody has launched an unprecedented raid on a newspaper office that's generating backlash from first amendment and press freedom advocates.
Eric Meyer, who owns and co-publishes the Marion County Record, reported the newspaper's office and his home were raided by members of the Marion Police Department and the Marion County Sheriff's Department.
Meyer said computers, cell phones, and other materials were seized during the raid at the newspaper.
Meyer lived with his mother, Joan Meyer, 98, who was co-owner of the paper.
Eric Meyer reported on Saturday his mother died as a result of the raid.
“Stressed beyond her limits and overwhelmed by hours of shock and grief after illegal police raids on her home and the Marion County Record newspaper office Friday, 98-year-old newspaper co-owner Joan Meyer, otherwise in good health for her age, collapsed Saturday afternoon and died at her home.”
Eric Meyer wrote his mom could not eat or sleep after the raid.
"She tearfully watched during the raid as police not only carted away her computer and a router used by an Alexa smart speaker but also dug through her son Eric’s personal bank and investments statements to photograph them. Electronic cords were left in a jumbled pile on her floor."
The KSHB I-Team reached out to Eric Meyer by phone and email Sunday afternoon but did not hear back by the time this story was published.
News of Friday's raid became widely circulated Friday night by the Kansas Reflector, an independent media outlet operating in the state.
Meyer told the Kansas Reflector he believed the raid was connected to a series of events that included a public meeting held earlier this month by U.S. Rep. Jake LaTurner (R - KS 2nd District) at a coffee shop operated by Kari Newell.
Despite the meeting being open to the public, Newell told two members of the Marion County Record to leave.
Meyer said the newspaper then received a tip about Newell allegedly driving without a valid driver’s license after a traffic offense in 2008.
Meyer told the Reflector that, although a reporter used a publicly-accessible database on the Kansas Department of Revenue's website to confirm the information, the newspaper declined to publish a story.
Instead, Meyer said he notified local police of the situation.
Marion County Magistrate Judge Laura Viar signed off on the search warrant.
In 2022, Viar was named magistrate judge by the 8th Judicial District Nominating Commission. Prior to her appointment, she served as the county attorney for Morris County, Kansas.
The KSHB 41 I-Team contacted [Marion Police Chief Gideon] Cody Sunday morning for a copy of the search warrant and other records.
"As much as I would like to give everyone details on a criminal investigation, I cannot," Cody replied in an e-mail. "I believe when the rest of the story is available to the public, the judicial system that is being questioned will be vindicated."
www.yahoo.com/news/kansas-newspaper-co-owner-98-170600866...
Kansas newspaper co-owner, 98, dies after cops raid home with ‘illegal’ search warrant; cops seize paper’s computers, phones, equipment
kansasreflector.com/2023/08/11/police-stage-chilling-raid...
Police stage ‘chilling’ raid on Marion County newspaper, seizing computers, records and cellphones
MARION — In an unprecedented raid Friday, local law enforcement seized computers, cellphones and reporting materials from the Marion County Record office, the newspaper’s reporters, and the publisher’s home.
Eric Meyer, owner and publisher of the newspaper, said police were motivated by a confidential source who leaked sensitive documents to the newspaper, and the message was clear: “Mind your own business or we’re going to step on you.”
The city’s entire five-officer police force and two sheriff’s deputies took “everything we have,” Meyer said, and it wasn’t clear how the newspaper staff would take the weekly publication to press Tuesday night.
The raid followed news stories about a restaurant owner who kicked reporters out of a meeting last week with U.S. Rep. Jake LaTurner, and revelations about the restaurant owner’s lack of a driver’s license and conviction for drunken driving.
The search warrant, signed by Marion County District Court Magistrate Judge Laura Viar, appears to violate federal law that provides protections against searching and seizing materials from journalists. The law requires law enforcement to subpoena materials instead.
Emily Bradbury, executive director of the Kansas Press Association, said the police raid is unprecedented in Kansas.
“An attack on a newspaper office through an illegal search is not just an infringement on the rights of journalists but an assault on the very foundation of democracy and the public’s right to know,” Bradbury said. “This cannot be allowed to stand.”
A confidential source contacted the newspaper, Meyer said, and provided evidence that Newell had been convicted of drunken driving and continued to use her vehicle without a driver’s license. The criminal record could jeopardize her efforts to obtain a liquor license for her catering business.
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A central Kansas police force sparked a firestorm by raiding a newspaper and the publisher's home
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Police conduct 'chilling' raid of Kansas newspaper, publisher's home
(USA Today) Police in a central Kansas town raided the local newspaper's office Friday and seized computers and employees' personal cellphones – an action that advocates say violates federal laws protecting the media.
Law enforcement officers with the Marion (Kan.) Police Department and the Marion County Sheriff's Office took the Marion County Record's computer file server, other computers and phones, and other equipment, the Record reported.
A search warrant, posted online by the nonprofit news site the Kansas Reflector was signed by Marion County District Court Magistrate Judge Laura Viar. The warrant was approved and cited probable cause that violations related to identity theft and unlawful acts concerning computers were committed. Police were approved to search for devices that were used to access the Kansas Department of Revenue records website and documents and records pertaining to Kari Newell.
Newell is a Marion restaurant owner who during a city council meeting on Aug. 7 accused the Record of illegally obtaining information about her, the newspaper reported.
Interest in the incident rose as word about it spread Saturday as The New York Post and The Guardian US, a domestic edition of the U.K. newspaper, picked up the story.
Chief: Police and court 'will be vindicated' in Marion, Kansas raid
The federal Privacy Protection Act protects against most searches of journalists and newsrooms by law enforcement, usually requiring police to issue subpoenas. "Legal experts contacted by the Record termed the raid unheard of in America and reminiscent of what occurs in totalitarian regimes and the Third World," the Record reported.
But Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody said in an email exchange with USA TODAY that "speaking in generalities" the Privacy Protection Act allows for a search warrant "when there is reason to believe the journalist is taking part in the underlying wrongdoing."
"I believe when the rest of the story is available to the public, the judicial system that is being questioned will be vindicated," Cody said. "I appreciate all the assistance from all the State and Local investigators along with the entire judicial process thus far."
Eric Meyer, publisher and owner of the Record, told the Reflector – and wrote on the Record's own news site – that a source contacted the Record, and a member of the city council, with information that Newell "did not have a valid driver's license and (law enforcement) had ignored what the source said were repeated violation of driving laws by Newell."
The Record verified the information using a public website but decided not to publish it, Meyer reported. After consulting an attorney, Meyer told Cody and Sheriff Jeff Soyez about the information the source provided, he wrote.
Meyer reported that the information had been leaked to the Record "as part of legal sparring between Newell and her estranged husband" as part of the couple's divorce proceedings.
“We thought we were being set up,” Meyer told the Reflector.
Co-owner of Marion County Record died Saturday, newspaper reports
After Newell made public comments at the city council meeting alleging the Record had illegally gotten and shared sensitive documents, the Record published a story Thursday detailing its actions and decrying Newell's accusations as false.
Friday morning, police searched the newspaper office and Meyer's home, where he and his mother, Joan Meyer, a co-owner of the newspaper, lived. Police took two computers and an Alexa smart speaker Joan Meyer used to stream TV shows and get help, he wrote.
Then, Saturday afternoon, his mother, 98, collapsed and died at her home. He described her as "otherwise in good health for her age."
"She had not been able to eat after police showed up at the door of her home Friday with a search warrant in hand," Eric Meyer wrote in a story posted Saturday. "Neither was she able to sleep Friday night."
Meyer, a retired journalism professor of journalism at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has been the longtime editor and publisher of the Marion County Record, Hillsboro Star-Journal and Peabody Gazette-Bulletin. He and his mother are co-owners of Hoch Publishing, which owns the three outlets. His late father, Bill Meyer, was a longtime journalist in Marion and is in the Kansas Press Association Hall of Fame.
Kansas newspaper staff endured 'Gestapo tactics,' publisher says
Police also searched the home of Vice Mayor Ruth Herbel, reported the Record, which is expected to file a federal suit against the city and those involved in the search.
"Our first priority is to be able to publish next week," Meyer said in the story Friday, "but we also want to make sure no other news organization is ever exposed to the Gestapo tactics we witnessed today. We will be seeking the maximum sanctions possible under the law."
Other local newspapers are helping the Record so it can publish this week, and press associations are prepared to support the Record, Emily Bradbury, executive director of the Kansas Press Association, told USA TODAY. "This has never happened in Kansas, so this has a chilling effect and we're going to do everything we can to make sure that this kind of practice is not encouraged and people are held accountable," she said.
The association has heard from several First Amendment organizations "that have said, 'How can we help you?'" she said. "If you want to unite journalists, this is the way to do it."
The National Newspaper Association called on authorities to return any property seized so "the newspaper can proceed with its work," said John Galer, the chairperson of the National Newspaper Association, in a post on Facebook and in a statement on the association site.
“Newsroom raids in this country receded into history 50 years ago. Today, law enforcement agencies by and large understand that gathering information from newsrooms is a last resort and then done only with subpoenas that protect the rights of all involved," Galer said. “For a newspaper to be intimidated by an unannounced search and seizure is unthinkable in an America that respects its First Amendment rights."
Contributing: Jason Alatidd, Topeka Capital-Journal
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Police conduct 'chilling' raid of Kansas newspaper, publisher's home
Experts in international commercial dispute resolution converged in Paris for the annual ICC/FIDIC conference on resolving disputes in international construction deals.
A bottle of liquor from North Korea. Because NK is so secretive, South Koreans are obsessed with anything that comes from the North. These are in a museum outside the DMZ
The Security Council adopts resolution 2699 (2023), authorizing Member States that have notified the Secretary-General of their participation to form and deploy a Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission with a lead country, in close cooperation and coordination with the Government of Haiti, for an initial period of twelve months following the adoption of this resolution. The cost of implementing this temporary operation will be borne by voluntary contributions and support from individual Member States and regional organizations, and in strict compliance with international law, including, international human rights law, as applicable, to support the efforts of the Haitian National Police to re-establish security in Haiti and build security conditions conducive to holding free and fair elections. The resolution was adopted with 13 votes in favour; none against; and 2 abstentions (China, Russian Federation).
A view of council members voting in favour of the resolution.
UN Photo/Paulo Filgueiras
2 October 2023
New York, United States of America
Photo # UN71006172
The home – made coffee descended from our African Ancestors is commonly founded in homes where there is an elder. This picture was taken from a home where a young boy was sent by his grandmother to pick some ripe coffee from the coffee tree behind their house then placed in the sun to dry.
Today, December 18,2018, at the Office of the Prime Minister, there was held a Press Conference on the resolutions from the 16th National Umushyikirano Council. The conference was to announce the 10 resolutions that were adopted from the council, and answer some questions from Journalists working for media houses about the resolutions and other issues related to the 16th National Umushyikirano Council. Three Ministers and the Executive Secretary of the National Commission for the fight against Genocide (CNLG), were present and responded to issues raised by media professionals.
“As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.” ~Mel Brooks
I only have one New Year's Resolution this year: embrace my mistakes, be more positive
I happen to live in one of the coolest places ever and yet I've stopped enjoying it, I need to go back to having adventures, even if it means having them alone, bad things are going to continue to happen, that's life, but I simply must stop dwelling on them