From the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Update: Marion County, Kansas, agreed Nov. 10 to pay more than $3 million for its role in a raid on the Marion County Record newsroom in 2023.

U.S. Press Freedom Tracker

Newsroom, personal equipment seized in Kansas raid

Local law enforcement executed a search warrant on the offices of the Marion County Record on Aug. 11, 2023, seizing …

Police and judges need a refresher on the First Amendment. Kansas’ Marion County just provided the syllabus — the expensive way.

Freedom of the Press

Kansas county pays $3M for forgetting the First Amendment

Marion County cops got their First Amendment lesson the hard way. Police elsewhere should take note

ICE isn’t letting the government shutdown stop it from tearing apart communities. So FPF won’t let a shutdown stop us from suing to force transparency. Our latest FOIA suit gets at the heart of ICE’s efforts to restrict congressional access to its detention centers.

Freedom of the Press

FPF takes ICE to court over dangerous secrecy

FOIA lawsuit targets ICE’s efforts to stop congressional oversight of detention facilities

When your local reporter needs the same protection as a war correspondent Check out this story by Michelle Zenarosa in Poynter:

Poynter

When your local reporter needs the same protection as a war correspondent - Poynter

Five months of covering ICE raids taught our small LA newsroom hard lessons — and we're still figuring out how to sustain it

YouTube quietly erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations: "A capitulation to Trump sanctions" Read more in this @npub1s89f...rdtv story by Nikita Mazurov and Jonah Valdez

The Intercept

YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations

The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.

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