Linn County court case raises First Amendment concerns

A new Kansas law withheld information from the public in a recent Linn County criminal case, raising concerns about the balance between safely executing an arrest warrant and the First Amendment.Before Senate Bill 204 took effect in July, cases including arrest warrants — which have the name of the offender, a list of criminal charges and name of the victim — were public record throu...

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