A decade after the last FOIA reform, RCFP shares its wishlist for improving the well-intended but deeply flawed law.

Journalist Michael Balter had been covering the Croton-Harmon Union Free School District for several months when school officials went silent in the spring of 2024. The school district in Westchester ...

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is urging the Federal Communications Commission to find that interviews on ABC’s daytime talk show “The View” are exempt from an agency rule that ...

The Freedom of the Press Awards return Oct. 14 to celebrate leaders in journalism and media law. The 2026 Freedom of the Press Awards will be held on Oct. 14, 2026, at the Ziegfeld Ballroom in New ...

Georgia Broad, vague or burdensome requests may trigger certain of the Act’s fee provisions. As amended in 2012, the Act now provides that, “In any instance in which an agency will seek costs in ...

This guide helps journalists understand their rights at protests and how to avoid arrest when reporting on these events. Note: This guide was published in 2018 and most recently updated in December ...

Marwah Adhoob is a Legal Intern at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Marwah is a rising second-year law student at American University Washington College of Law. Before law school, ...

Recent legislation has trended toward more robust protections for defendants in SLAPP suits. South Dakota became the sixteenth state to enact a version of the Uniform Public Expression Protection Act ...

The federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and similar state laws give the public the right to obtain records from certain government entities. Journalists use these laws, also known as sunshine ...

Background: In 2005, 15-year-old King Young Brown Jr. was convicted in connection with the 2002 killing of a 6-year-old girl in Greenville, Mississippi, after two mistrials resulted in hung juries.

When the Dallas Police Department released its policy in May on the right of the press and public to records its officers, the media were left scrambling to figure out what had changed between when ...