Freedom of the PressA year after Marion County Record raid, authorities keep ignoring press rights — By @freedomofpress' Advocacy Director Seth Stern
“The Marion raid was an unusually dramatic violation, but authorities disregard the law on a smaller scale all the time, in ways its drafters couldn’t have imagined,” Seth Stern writes.
Along with plenty of other alarming press freedom transgressions, the cumulative effect of these privacy act violations is to intimidate journalists and encourage self-censorship.
EeBeThe anniversary of the Marion raid should be a reminder to all journalists, and all law enforcement officers, of the rights afforded to journalists by the First Amendment and laws like the Privacy Protection Act.
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