A former Kansas police chief who ordered a raid last year on the office of a local newspaper and the home of its publisher will be charged with interfering in the judicial process, a felony, prosecutors said on Monday.

In a 124-page report, two special prosecutors said that Gideon Cody, the former chief of police in Marion, Kan., would be the only person charged in connection with the raid on The Marion County Record, a weekly newspaper, on Aug. 11, 2023.

The report said there was no reason to believe that any of the other local police officers or county sheriff’s deputies who were involved in the search — or any of the newspaper’s staff members — had committed any crimes.

The raid was roundly condemned by First Amendment experts and thrust Marion — a small town that is home to less than 2,000 people — into the national spotlight.

It also led to several civil lawsuits, including one that was filed by Deb Gruver, a former reporter at The Record, against Mr. Cody and others, claiming that he had injured her hand while seizing her personal cellphone during the raid. Her lawsuit resulted in a $235,000 settlement in June.

The authorities had said the search was part of an investigation into how The Marion County Record obtained and handled the driving record of a local restaurateur, Kari Newell — and whether her privacy had been violated in the process.