'The Record should sue not only to deter future searches of its newsroom, but to protect journalists and news outlets around the country from future illegal raids,' said one press freedom advocate.
the targeted newspaper, "Stressed beyond her limits and overwhelmed by hours of shock and grief after illegal police raids on her home and thenewspaper 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.
"While withdrawing the search warrant is the correct step, Marion County tragically cannot undo the death of the newspaper's 98-year-old co-owner Joan Meyer, who collapsed and died after police rifled through papers and seized materials from her home," she stressed. "Nor can law enforcement reverse the damage that has resulted to the newspaper staff, its confidential sources, and the chill on press freedom writ large from the raid.
"Government officials who think they can raid a newsroom should be on notice that there are consequences for searches that violate the law," Vogus continued, noting that the newspaper has threatened a lawsuit. "Theshould sue not only to deter future searches of its newsroom, but to protect journalists and news outlets around the country from future illegal raids."
In this case, Freedom of the Press Foundation director of advocacy Seth Stern argued, "authorities deserve zero credit for coming to their senses only after an intense backlash from the local and national media and an aggressive letter from the"These kinds of frivolous abuses of the legal system to attack the press are intended not to win but to intimidate journalists," he said.
Despite several obstacles created by local law enforcement seizing electronics and reporting materials, thepublished on Wednesday—with a front-page headline that declared, "SEIZED... but not silenced.""Phyllis Zorn, a staff reporter, said she had heard of the term 'all-nighter,' but she didn't know it to be real before," the, noting that newspaper staff finished the pages of Wednesday's edition just after 5:00 am and Eric Meyer made it home at 7:30 am.
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