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

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

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

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

An RCFP attorney represents The Sentinel in a dispute over the news outlet’s ability to recover fees in a lawsuit. Rachael Johnson, the Reporters Committee's Local Legal Initiative attorney for ...

Update: On Oct. 30, 2025, Indiana University reversed its decision to cut future print editions and bar the Indiana Daily Student from printing news. The same day, the newspaper’s former adviser sued ...

ProPublica reported on Thursday that Elon Musk’s SpaceX accepted money directly from Chinese investors, “raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of the United States’ most ...

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and 26 media organizations are urging the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to scrap, or at least revise, a proposed policy that would limit the ...

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is pushing back against a new Pentagon policy that threatens to revoke press passes from journalists covering the Pentagon if they attempt to report ...

In this Jan. 25, 2012, file photo, Indiana State Police stand at the entrance of the House of Representatives during a debate on the right to work bill at the Statehouse in Indianapolis. (AP ...

Background: In May 2025, Guardian U.S. Data Editor Will Craft submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement seeking access to deportation records dating ...

Today, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press announced Eric Feder as its Local Legal Initiative director, where he will oversee the growing program that provides local news organizations ...