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A Kansas reporter raided by police settles for $850,000

Phyllis Zorn's federal settlement follows $600,000 from Marion County and comes three years to the day after the 2023 raid.

Ellsworth Toohey
Aug 14, 2026
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Marion County Record — Downtown Marion, Kansas. Photo by shannonpatrick17 / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Marion County Record — Downtown Marion, Kansas. Photo by shannonpatrick17 / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Phyllis Zorn, a reporter at the Marion County Record, will get $850,000 from the city of Marion, Kansas to settle her federal lawsuit over the 2023 police raid on the newspaper, reports the Kansas Reflector. Lawyers for Zorn and the city filed the…

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