A newpaper reporter for the Marion County Record is suing the city of Marion and several local officials over a raid on the newspaper office last August.

 Phyllis Zorn is seeking $950,000 in damages from the city of Marion and has also named the former mayor, the former police chief, the current interim police chief, the Marion County Commission, the Marion County Sheriff, and a former sheriff's deputy as co-conspirators in the suit. Zorn claims they deprived her of her First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and of the press and her Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure un the US Constitution.

The lawsuit stems from a raid conducted on the offices of the Marion County Record on August 11, in which law enforcement siezed equipment and personal cell phones. Zorn says the raid caused her both physical and mental health problems.

A former reporter for the Record has also sued former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody for $75,000. the two parties are set to meet with a mediator in April.