A lawyer for the Marion County Record expressed optimism about the investigation of a search that its editor decried as 'Gestapo tactics.'
that the Record had been investigating allegations that Cody had been accused of sexual misconduct in Kansas City, Mo., but the paper had not yet published a story about it.However, the police raid — led by Cody with four other Marion officers and two sheriff’s deputies — appears to have been triggered by an apparently unrelated matter.
Meyer denied last week that the paper had obtained the information — which the Record also had not previously published — through illicit means or shared it with a local council member, as Newell alleged. He said the records came from a source who separately leaked the information to the council member, whose home was also raided on Friday as part of the warrant.The KBI’s director, Tony Mattivi, appeared to defend the raid in a statement Sunday, saying members of the media aren’t “above the law.
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