this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2023
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Short version:
Police chief was accused of sexual impropriety, and the newspaper was investigating.
A prominent local restaurant owner got caught in a DUI and the newspaper got a tip and investigated. On investigation, they decided the story was not newsworthy.
Police raided the newspaper claiming that the DUI tip was the result of illegal computer hacking, and that they had to confiscate the computers to analyze for evidence of hacking.
The judge who signed the search warrant also had a history of DUI.
Critics believe that the police used this hacking claim as a thinly veiled excuse to cripple the newspaper and check to see what they really had on the chief.
Critics have also suggested that the police themselves may have leaked the information to set up the flimsy excuse for the search.
Thanks for the summary.
That is kind of what I suspected which is:
Overall that’s bad news. It implies the government’s gloves are coming off.