As RCFP's Gabe Rottman writes, the Section 702 reauthorization measure includes "a big red flag for the press." ...

Attorneys from RCFP and Yale's MFIA Clinic helped journalist Brittany Hailer reach a settlement with Allegheny County.

RCFP submitted testimony urging Ohio lawmakers to pass a bill that would allow courts to quickly dismiss frivolous lawsuits ...

Background: In April 2023, public radio journalist Melanie Faizer filed a federal Freedom of Information Act request seeking records from the Tennessee Valley Authority, a federally owned agency that ...

The Reporter’s Recording Guide provides a summary of the recording laws (which restrict the recording and dissemination of phone calls and in-person conversations) and hidden camera laws (which ...

Anti-SLAPP laws provide defendants a way to quickly dismiss meritless lawsuits — known as SLAPPs or strategic lawsuits against public participation — filed against them for exercising speech, press, ...

Short for strategic lawsuits against public participation, SLAPPs have become an all-too-common tool for intimidating and silencing criticism through expensive, baseless legal proceedings. Anti-SLAPP ...

The 2024 Freedom of the Press Awards will be held Oct. 16, 2024, at the Ziegfeld Ballroom in New York. The cocktail reception begins at 6:00 p.m. Dinner and program are at 7:00 p.m. Support the ...

Kris Cundiff is a Local Legal Initiative staff attorney based in Indiana. He joined the Reporters Committee after nearly seven years of government practice in Indiana's Office of the Public Access ...