Question

Dejuan is the managing editor and owner of a small local paper, the Saratoga Register, that has published a series of well-researched articles alleging corruption and malfeasance in the Mayor's office of his town. When police confiscated the Register's computers and printing facilities, they were violating which freedom protected by the Bill of Rights?

Answer 1

Freedom of the press

Step-by-step explanation:

Freedom of the press, is simply known as the legal right granted to the press. According to the First Amendment to the United States Constitution in which that the publishing and distribution of information or passing across messages in books, and newspapers does not or prohibit government interference.

The Freedom of the Press was said to be approved in 1966. The freedoms of the press are needed greatly towards the growth and establishment of a strong, independent press free from interference. The press is commonly refered to as the "Fourth Branch of the Government". Freedom of the Press offers or give censorship of newspapers, magazines, books radio, television, and film.