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 ...
A screen grab from video footage shows Australian journalist Lauren Tomasi being shot by a police officer with a rubber bullet while reporting on protests in Los Angeles. Attorneys from the Reporters ...
Attorneys from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press are representing three news outlets in a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a Pennsylvania State University policy ...
Background: In April 2025, freelance journalist Henry Bard submitted a request under Pennsylvania’s Right-to-Know Law seeking various records from the University of Pittsburgh Police Department, ...
This post originally appeared in The Nuance, the Reporters Committee’s newsletter on legal and policy issues at the forefront of a free press. Sign up today! American courts have a long tradition of ...
Update: On May 19, 2026, a Louisiana judge ruled in favor of the parish, holding that the government’s fee schedule for accessing public records “is reasonable and does not violate the State of ...
On behalf of Jigsaw Productions, RCFP attorneys successfully argued that the disclosure of the video would not harm Musk’s privacy. Elon Musk arrives to speak at the Conservative Political Action ...
A federal judge ruled on Friday that the Pentagon’s media access policy violated the Constitution, concluding in part that it was intended “to weed out disfavored journalists” and replace them with ...
Background: In a notice issued on Jan. 16, 2026, the Federal Aviation Administration imposed sweeping, nationwide flight restrictions that bar drones from flying within 3,000 lateral feet and 1,000 ...
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