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   A year after Marion County Record raid, authorities keep ignoring press rights — By @freedomofpress' Advocacy Director Seth Stern

   https://freedom.press/news/a-year-after-marion-county-record-raid-authorities-keep-ignoring-press-rights/

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     The 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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     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.

     https://freedom.press/news/a-year-after-marion-county-record-raid-authorities-keep-ignoring-press-rights/

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     “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.

     https://freedom.press/news/a-year-after-marion-county-record-raid-authorities-keep-ignoring-press-rights/