Kansas Cops Raid Small Town Newspaper In Extremely Questionable 'Criminal Investigation'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : 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.
54% : Speaking in generalities, the federal Privacy Protection Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000aa-2000aa-12, does protect journalists from most searches of newsrooms by federal and state law enforcement officials.
53% : While we would like to know why these search warrants we're granted, we're far more interested in why law enforcement sought them in the first place.
50% : That's what the First Amendment means.
50% : What may actually be happening here is local law enforcement attempting to silence reporting about...
47% : The state law is pretty much the CFAA: a catch-all for "computer" crimes that allows law enforcement (if so motivated) to treat almost anything that might resemble a journalistic effort to gather facts as a crime against computers.
43% : Either way, what local law enforcement should have immediately recognized, long before the raids were carried out, is that this would draw national attention to these unconstitutional raids as well as give the Marion County Recorder a bunch of fans capable of offsetting the damage done by these blundering officers.
38% : But that's what happened at a small newspaper in Kansas, for reasons local law enforcement is currently unwilling to explain.
31% : There's also another theory, which suggests something even more horrible than a local business owner weaponizing local law enforcement to keep their own misdeeds under wraps.
28% : The latter is a hideous abuse of law enforcement powers.

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