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 ...

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

When freedom of the press in the U.S. is under threat, journalists know that they have one place to go — the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. When they reach out to our free legal hotline ...

Background: In 2020, police arrested public radio journalist April Fonseca while she was reporting on a sweep of a homeless ...