Police bodycams were meant to deliver transparency, but in Pennsylvania, Act 22 makes that promise harder to keep.
This is an important win not just for LNP but for the promise of transparency in the Commonwealth,” said RCFP Staff Attorney ...
Proposed changes to Puerto Rico’s public records law “would significantly diminish government transparency,” RCFP argues.
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 ...
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 ...
Allowing clawbacks of records released during public records litigation would disincentivize pre-litigation compliance with ...
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Local Legal Initiative Attorney Paul McAdoo is representing a Tennessee news media coalition in a new lawsuit challenging access restrictions to certain ...
Newsrooms across the country are facing a growing wave of legal attacks aimed at silencing investigative reporting about powerful people and institutions. Especially for independent journalists or ...
Agency independence plays an important role in protecting the free press, RCFP argues in a friend-of-the-court brief.
Background: Since 1994, Tennessee law has permitted seven members of the news media to witness executions. Tennessee Department of Correction protocols, however, significantly restrict what those ...
Background: In 2020, police arrested public radio journalist April Fonseca while she was reporting on a sweep of a homeless ...