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After a search warrant for the Marion County Record was withdrawn and the seized items were returned, the newspaper's attorney Bernie Rhodes says authorities still have data from the paper.
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/GettyA lawyer for the Marion County Record alleges that Kansas authorities involved in the raid of the newspaper secretly copied data from at least one of its computers—and failed to hand it over with other seized evidence.Attorney Bernie Rhodes told The Daily Beast that the Marion County Sheriff's Office “confirmed the fact they copied 17 Gigs of data from the newsroom computer system—and they still have it.” The retention of the data was
“This access is illegal,” the Marion County Record's lawyer fumed.
Marion County Record's attorney Bernie Rhodes says authorities still have data from the paper.