Represented by an RCFP attorney, three Pennsylvania news outlets fought to make the dockets and judicial records public.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department has released body-worn camera footage that sheds light on how law enforcement ...

In Senate testimony, RCFP highlights several incidents in which journalists were arrested or injured while covering DHS ...

Proposed changes to Puerto Rico’s public records law “would significantly diminish government transparency,” RCFP argues.

Allowing clawbacks of records released during public records litigation would disincentivize pre-litigation compliance with ...

A journalist’s job is to ask questions, get answers and inform the public with accuracy and credibility. But right now, the free press is under assault. “We have to decide as a country that the First ...

Author’s Note: The author gratefully acknowledges Ryan R. Relyea (the current and some prior editions) and Azeezat Adeleke, Brian C. Earl, Daniel Heng, Aaron Johansen and John F. Blevins (prior ...

Reform legislation aimed at improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the Freedom of Information Act is beginning to look a lot like many FOIA requests: it sits in a queue waiting for official ...

Today, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press announced the recipients of the 2025 Freedom of the Press Awards, hosted this year by Judy Woodruff, senior correspondent and the former anchor ...

Police bodycams were meant to deliver transparency, but in Pennsylvania, Act 22 makes that promise harder to keep.

With the 2024 election behind us, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is looking ahead to Donald Trump’s second term as president and how it will impact press freedom and the public’s ...

Updates: Following the settlement reached between The Oregonian and the city of The Dalles, a Google spokesperson told the Associated Press that the tech company would no longer seek to protect its ...