A Pennsylvania judge has ordered state police to release body-worn camera footage capturing a car chase that ended in a fatal ...
These sweeping seizures of a journalist’s records violate the First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, and the Privacy Protection Act.
A Tennessee judge has ordered the state to provide journalists expanded access to execution proceedings, finding that its restrictions on news media witnesses likely violated state law and the First ...
Represented by RCFP attorneys, the news outlet alleges that the Federal Bureau of Prisons violated FOIA by unlawfully ...
T]his is a tremendous escalation in the administration’s intrusions into the independence of the press,” said RCFP President ...
Tanvi Valsangikar, RCFP’s inaugural Abrams Legal Fellow, provides free legal services to FRONTLINE and other documentary ...
The government cannot justify wholesale secrecy here, where the public’s ability to understand a search with serious ...
In a brief, RCFP supports The New York Times’s lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Pentagon’s new press rules.
Within hours, RCFP attorneys filed in federal court seeking records on the government’s justification for the raid.
The Reporters Committee regularly submits amicus, or “friend-of-the-court,” briefs in state, federal, and U.S. Supreme Court cases where the news media brings an important perspective. Known for ...
Background: In 2023, Business Insider published a three-part series and an accompanying documentary cataloging hundreds of ...
The government cannot justify wholesale secrecy here, where the public’s ability to understand a search with serious ...