Almost one year after the authorities raided The Marion County Record, a Kansas weekly newspaper, a former reporter has reached a $235,000 settlement as part of a lawsuit she filed over the search, which set off a national discussion about press freedoms.
The settlement, dated June 25, brought an end to a lawsuit filed by the former reporter, Deb Gruver, against Gideon Cody, who resigned as the Marion city police chief in October in the face of mounting pressure.
Ms. Gruver’s lawsuit claimed that Mr. Cody had caused injury to her hand while forcibly obtaining her personal cellphone during the raid.
Body-camera footage corroborated Ms. Gruver’s account, according to Eric Meyer, the newspaper’s publisher.
Mr. Meyer said on Saturday that body-camera audio recorded Mr. Cody “saying that it just made his day.”
Persons:
Deb Gruver, Gideon Cody, Gruver’s, Cody, Eric Meyer, Meyer, Cody “, ”
Organizations:
Marion County
Locations:
Marion, Kansas