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Kansas reporter injured when cellphone seized during police raid of newsroom

Incident Details

Updated on: May 2, 2025
Date of incident: August 11, 2023
Location: Marion, Kansas
Case number: 6:23-cv-01179
Targets: Deb Gruver (Marion County Record)
Case status: Ongoing, Settled
Type of case: Civil

Assailant →: Law enforcement
Was the journalist targeted? →: Yes

Equipment searched or seized →: Cellphone, 1
Status of equipment →: Returned in full
Search warrant obtained →: No

Cameraman hit by village vehicle, municipal employee arrested

Incident Details

Updated on: February 7, 2024
Date of incident: August 11, 2023
Location: Hillsdale, Missouri
Targets: Wade Smith (KTVI)

Assailant →: Public figure
Was the journalist targeted? →: Unknown

Equipment broken →: Camera, 1
Actor →: Public figure

Kansas reporter files suit after phone seized in newsroom raid

Incident Details

Updated on: August 5, 2024
Date of incident: August 11, 2023
Location: Marion, Kansas
Case number: 2:24-cv-02044
Targets: Phyllis Zorn (Marion County Record)
Case status: Ongoing
Type of case: Civil

Equipment searched or seized →: Cellphone, 1
Status of equipment →: Returned in full
Search warrant obtained →: No

Subpoena quashed for Ohio reporter’s documents in civil rights case

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 10, 2023
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Targets: Jeremy Pelzer (Cleveland.com)

Legal orders →: subpoena for communications or work product

Aug. 10, 2023: Pending

Aug. 24, 2023: Objected to

Oct. 9, 2023: Pending

Nov. 2, 2023: Objected to

Feb. 5, 2024: Quashed

March 1, 2024: Objected to

March 19, 2024: Quashed
Legal order target →: Journalist
Legal order venue →: Federal

WLS-TV photographer assaulted, phones stolen, vehicle damaged

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 8, 2023
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Targets: Unidentified photojournalist 30 (WLS-TV)

Assailant →: Private individual
Was the journalist targeted? →: Yes

Equipment broken →: Cellphone, 2

Vehicle, 1
Actor →: Private individual

Cannabis commission restricts reporter’s access

Incident Details

Date of incident: August 4, 2023
Location: Worcester, Massachusetts
Targets: Grant Smith-Ellis (Independent)

Government agency or public official involved →: State government: Agency
Type of denial →: Press credential or media list

Journalist called to testify before grand jury on Trump election interference

Incident Details

Updated on: August 31, 2023
Date of incident: July 31, 2023
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Targets: George Chidi (Freelance)

Legal orders →: subpoena for other testimony

July 31, 2023: Pending

Aug. 31, 2023: Dropped

subpoena for other testimony

July 31, 2023: Pending

Aug. 31, 2023: Dropped
Legal order target →: Journalist
Legal order venue →: State

Maryland reporter subpoenaed to testify in Texas murder trial

Incident Details

Date of incident: July 31, 2023
Location: Dallas, Texas
Targets: Jamie Leigh Thompson (D)

Legal orders →: subpoena for testimony about confidential source

July 31, 2023: Pending

Aug. 28, 2023: Objected to

Sept. 7, 2023: Upheld

Oct. 6, 2023: Objected to

Jan. 9, 2024: Upheld

Jan. 12, 2024: Dropped
Legal order target →: Journalist
Legal order venue →: State

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