LAWRENCE — Deb Gruver felt heartbroken and violated when police raided the Marion County Record last year.
As a reporter at the newspaper, Gruver knew that powerful people in town weren’t fans of the accountability journalism she and her colleagues produced. But when police rolled up to the office on Aug. 11, 2023, she didn’t know those officials had plotted a chilling raid that would soon seize national attention.
Gideon Cody, the police chief who led the raid, approached...