Kansas town denies raided newspaper’s request for city officials’ texts, flouting 2016 law

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Kansas town denies raided newspaper’s request for city officials’ texts, flouting 2016 law
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The Kansas Legislature in 2016 unanimously passeda bill to ensure government officials couldn’t shield records fromdisclosure by conducting public business on personal devices or emailaccounts.

Front pages hang on a wall at the Marion County Record, where police served a search warrant Friday.

Wichita-based lawyer Jennifer Hill, who is handling records requests to the city in the aftermath of the raid, denied the Marion County Record’s request on Tuesday. The newspaper Just days after police searched the newspaper, Herbel’s home and the home of the paper’s editor and publisher, Eric Meyer, the search warrants used to justify the raids fell apart after the county prosecutor found them insufficient. Meyer’s 98-year-old mother, Joan Meyer,

If the denial stands, Bradbury said, “we’ve got a real problem.” Fixing the law would become a priority of the Kansas Press Association in such a situation, she said. At the time, the 2016 law was hailed as an important bipartisan reform to close a glaring loophole in the Kansas Open Records Act. Derek Schmidt, then the Republican state attorney general, said the law would help “bring the Open Records Act into the 21st century.”, the state budget director under then-Gov. Sam Brownback, used a private email account to send two lobbyists a draft of the state’s budget several weeks before it was unveiled to lawmakers.

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