Okay, had to read the source article. The newspaper and owners are suspected of hacking and identity theft?
Except it was a big bunch of BS to excuse an illegal raid on a news org.
Must you be thread-jackass each and every time?
They went to a government website and requested information like any citizen is allowed to do and were given it.
They looked at the information, which was available to any citizen who asked, and decided that there was not enough there to do a story.
But their getting this publicly available information made poor sweet white male police chief's butt hurt.