A low-level employee of the Trump Organization has received a target letter from special counsel Jack Smith in connection with the investigation into former President Donald Trump’s handling of classified documents, suggesting that the employee could face charges and confirming that the broader inquiry continues, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The employee, whom the person declined to name, received the letter in the past few weeks after appearing in May before a federal grand jury in Washington. Prosecutors have been trying to establish whether any of Trump’s aides or employees interfered with the government’s attempts to obtain security camera footage from Mar-a-Lago, the former president’s private club and residence in Florida.

Footage from the cameras at Mar-a-Lago has been at the center of the case against Trump and was an instrumental part of the evidence used to obtain a warrant to search Mar-a-Lago last August. During that search, the FBI hauled away a trove of more than 100 classified documents that Trump had taken with him from the White House and kept even after receiving a subpoena demanding their return.

The surveillance footage was also key to the indictment that Smith’s office brought last month against Trump and his personal aide, Walt Nauta, in the Southern District of Florida. The indictment charges both men with conspiring to obstruct the government’s efforts to reclaim dozens of highly classified documents and Trump alone of illegally...

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