Marion County, located in central Kansas, will pay a total of $3 million to settle federal lawsuits stemming from the 2023 police raid of a family-owned, small-town newspaper.
The settlement, approved on Monday by the county’s board of commissioners, resolves allegations against the county for its role in the raid on the Marion County Record, a weekly paper serving a prairie town of about 1,900 residents. As part of the agreement, the county will issue an apology and “concede that wrongdoing likely occurred” during the searches, according to the Record.
