Kansas newspaper raided, shut down by police had investigated chief who came from KCPD

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% :Cody acknowledged that federal law protects journalists from most searches of newsrooms by federal and state law enforcement officials.
58% : "This is a Fourth Amendment issue, and the police are protecting people's Fourth Amendment, but you have to come to that conclusion on your own.
56% : "A search warrant based on insufficient probable cause violates the Fourth Amendment."
50% : Max Kautsch, a media attorney and president of the Kansas Coalition for Open Government, said while it is indeed the Fourth Amendment that protects the public against unlawful searches and seizures, "so far, law enforcement has not revealed how the publicly available evidence, which is extensive, provides probable cause to believe that a crime has been committed.""What the publicly available evidence suggests instead is that the Marion County Record was gathering and reporting truthful information about a matter in the public interest, not engaged in criminal activity," Kautsch told The Star in an email.
48% :The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects people from unlawful searches and seizures by the government.
45% :"Ultimately, it is difficult to fully evaluate law enforcement's conduct without access to the affidavit in support of the search warrant."

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