Kansas police chief who approved raid on journalists resigns Gideon Cody was suspended last week following backlash to his department's searches of a local newsroom and its publisher's home in Marion.

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Kansas police chief who approved raid on journalists resigns

Gideon Cody was suspended last week following backlash to his department's searches of a local newsroom and its publisher's home in Marion.   https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kansas-police-chief-approved-raid-journalists-resigns-rcna118512

 

The police chief of a small Kansas town who directed searches of a publisher and his newsroom over its retrieval of public information has resigned, an official confirmed to The Associated Press.

Marion Mayor David Mayfield suspended Police Chief Gideon Cody on Thursday, and Cody resigned Monday, Mayfield announced at a City Council meeting, according to City Council member Ruth Herbel.

Mayfield and Herbel did not immediately respond to requests for confirmation.

Cody used his five-member force and help from Marion County sheriff's deputies to launch warrant-based searches of the Marion County Record newsroom, as well as the homes of its publisher and of Herbel.

A day after the Aug. 11 raid, Record co-owner Joan Meyer, 98, died of stress caused by what happened, her son, publisher Eric Meyer, said later.