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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The legislation was introduced after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis held a roundtable discussion on defamation law. (AP photo by Wilfredo Lee) Update: After the defamation legislation failed to pass, ...

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press today announced the recipients of this year’s Freedom of the Press Awards, which recognize the accomplishments of leaders in the news media and legal ...

On May 23, 2019, a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia returned a superseding indictment against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The indictment adds 17 counts under the Espionage ...

Police aggressions against journalists covering the protests have proved to be an inflection point for violence against the news media. Ignited by the May 26 police killing of George Floyd, the 2020 ...

These days, as professors RonNell Andersen Jones and Sonja West have documented, the U.S. Supreme Court rarely turns its attention directly to press freedom and rarely thinks out loud about the impact ...