An attorney for a Kansas paper that was raided by police claimed data was cloned from their computers before being returned.
claimed data was cloned from their computers before a court-ordered return of the devices.
“It further appears that during – or after – the raid someone used this driver to copy or clone data from one or more computers owned by the Record,” Rhodes wrote in a letter to the county, threatening contempt of court.Rhodes submitted the letter to Marion County Counselor Bradley Jantz Thursday, after the newspaper discovered one of its seized items, the USB drive, had not been returned.
“The whole point of an inventory list is to maintain what we call a chain of custody so that it’s clear what was taken, so that can be used in court later. Without a valid chain of custody, all of it is just garbage,” he continued. “The fact that we have two different versions of the same inventory, signed apparently by the same officer, on the same date, using the same form, with the same official number on it, it’s garbage.
The attorney threatened to hold the sheriff in contempt of court if the county did not return the USB drive. Jantz later returned the flash drive, gave him the copied data, and said all copies would be destroyed.The attorney threatened to hold the sheriff in contempt of court if the county did not return the USB drive. Jantz later returned the flash drive, gave him the copied data, and said all copies would be destroyed, KWCH reported.
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