Within hours, RCFP attorneys filed in federal court seeking records on the government’s justification for the raid.

T]his is a tremendous escalation in the administration’s intrusions into the independence of the press,” said RCFP President ...

Represented by RCFP attorneys, the news outlet alleges that the Federal Bureau of Prisons violated FOIA by unlawfully ...

The government cannot justify wholesale secrecy here, where the public’s ability to understand a search with serious ...

Tanvi Valsangikar, RCFP’s inaugural Abrams Legal Fellow, provides free legal services to FRONTLINE and other documentary ...

Background: In 2023, Business Insider published a three-part series and an accompanying documentary cataloging hundreds of ...

Journalists who lie on employment applications to gain access to private facilities for newsgathering activities are not protected by… Journalists who lie on employment applications to gain access to ...

The government cannot justify wholesale secrecy here, where the public’s ability to understand a search with serious ...

Alaska Although compliance by law enforcement agencies is uneven, 911 tapes should be presumptively disclosable under the Public Records Act. The Legislature has considered a bill that would exempt ...

A growing consensus of courts have recognized a constitutional right to record government officials engaged in their duties in a public place. This First Amendment right to record generally ...

In a brief, RCFP supports The New York Times’s lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Pentagon’s new press rules.

From the Spring 2001 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 4. From the Spring 2001 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 4. Over the past several months, the Orlando Sentinel weathered criticism ...