Court records detail basis for police raid on Kansas newspaper

Reporter Phyllis Zorn and editor Eric Meyer said no laws were broken in their investigation of local restaurateur Kari Newell

The police chief who led the raid of a Kansas newspaper alleged in previously unreleased court documents that a reporter either impersonated someone else or lied about her intentions when she obtained the driving records of a local business owner.

But reporter Phyllis Zorn, Marion County Record editor and publisher Eric Meyer, and the newspaper's attorney said on Sunday that no laws were broken when Zorn accessed a public state website for information on restaurant operator Kari Newell.