KUSA-9 News sued the police department for access to unedited bodycam videos with free legal support from an RCFP attorney.

Closing courtroom doors to a journalist attending a public immigration proceeding is unlawful and damaging to public transparency.” ...

A provision in immigration law explicitly permits the U.S. secretary of state to revoke non-citizens’ green cards or visas ...

Freedom of the Press Awards, hosted by Judy Woodruff, return Oct. 15 to celebrate leaders in journalism and law ...

The settlement comes after Spotlight PA filed an open meetings lawsuit against Penn State’s governing body with free legal ...

The Morgan County Correspondent sued the school board last year with free legal support from an RCFP attorney.

Paula Knudsen Burke, attorney for the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, is on the frontlines of the battle for ...

RCFP argues that a series of lower-court rulings in defamation lawsuits is unsettling the law and will chill journalism in ...

Background: In 2017, the Los Angeles Times published an investigation by Maya Lau and two of her colleagues uncovering a list of hundreds of Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies with histories of ...

Background: In April 2025, Ashlynd Huffman, a reporter for The Frontier, submitted an open records request to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections seeking reports on the death of an inmate and other ...

This guide was authored by Zivile Raskauskaite, Skye Lucas, and Sara George, working with Professor Jared Schroeder at the Missouri School of Journalism. Grant support for this project was provided by ...