Legal issues

By Sherman Smith Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody enlisted the support of local and state law enforcement officials in the days before he led raids on the local newspaper office, the publisher’s home and the home of a city councilwoman. The...

Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody has resigned, less than two months after he instigated a widely covered raid on a local newspaper that culminated in a federal lawsuit and one woman’s death. Marion Mayor David Mayfield announced Cody’s departure during...

An open meetings complaint to the Kansas Attorney General had Johnson County commissioners searching their memories last week as they sought to provide answers about a June 29 executive session on county employee pay tables. By last Friday, commissioners were...

By Sherman Smith House Minority Leader Vic Miller said Tuesday he would introduce legislation to take away a magistrate’s power to authorize a search warrant, addressing one problematic aspect of the circumstances surrounding the raid on the Marion County Record. Miller,...

Editor's note: This story was updated to correct an error. Jake LaTurner is a Kansas congressman, and previously served as Kansas state treasurer from 2017 to 2021. By Madeline Fox  The now-withdrawn documents used to justify a search of the Marion County...

By Dylan Lysen The widely-criticized raid of a newspaper in Marion County could result in taxpayers footing the bill if there’s a successful federal lawsuit saying police violated the journalists’ First Amendment rights. Legal experts say that could mean the small...

By Sherman Smith  Marion County Record staff worked through the night to publish the paper’s weekly edition as scheduled Wednesday, days after police raided the newsroom and confiscated computers, cellphones and other items. A single word screamed across the top of...

By Sherman Smith Marion police on Saturday defended their unprecedented raid on a newspaper office and the publisher’s home by pointing to a loophole in federal law that protects journalists from searches and seizures. Law enforcement raided the Marion County Record...

By Sherman Smith, Sam Bailey, Rachel Mipro and Tim Carpenter  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...

A Kansas City, Mo., woman is suing Saint Luke's Health System, the city of Leawood and Leawood Police for racial discrimination and civil rights violations after she says she was forcibly removed from a community hospital while in great...

A man has sued an Overland Park nursing home two years after his wife fell from her bed at the facility and died. Catch up quick: John Miller is suing both Advanced Health Care, 4700 Indian Creek Parkway, and the...

An Overland Park couple has filed suit in Johnson County District Court asking a judge to review the city’s decision allowing a respite house for sober living in Shannon Valley Estates. The suit, filed Feb. 22 by David and Cynthia...