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The police chief who led an August raid on a small weekly newspaper in central Kansas has resigned, just days after he was suspended from his post, a City Council member confirmed Monday. City Council Member Ruth Herbel confirmed to The Associated Press that the mayor announced Chief Gideon Cody’s resignation at Monday’s City Council meeting. The announcement comes days after Cody was suspended for reasons that were not made public, and weeks after a local prosecutor said that there wasn’t sufficient evidence to justify the search of the Marion County Record.

The raids put Marion, a town of 1,900 residents some 150 miles southwest of Kansas City, at the center of a fierce national debate over press freedoms

The Marion Police Department Chief of Police Gideon Cody resigned effective immediately at the city council meeting held Monday.

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The raids put Marion, a town of 1,900 residents some 150 miles southwest of Kansas City, at the center of a fierce national debate over press freedoms