Students at UVA Law's First Amendment Clinic, run by RCFP attorneys, helped Business Insider access records about prison ...

It’s the third data-driven investigation based on records Spotlight PA obtained through successful litigation with free legal ...

A law enacted by Alameda County, California, criminalizes the act of reporting on street races and other reckless driving ...

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Background: During a Juvenile Court proceeding in 2019, Adam Montgomery was granted custody of his four-year-old daughter, Harmony. Later that year, Harmony disappeared, but her disappearance went ...

With the 2024 election behind us, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is looking ahead to Donald Trump’s second term as president and how it will impact press freedom and the public’s ...

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 word “drone” conjures up visions of huge military aircraft dropping bombs overseas, or of tiny machines flitting through buildings, spying on the occupants inside. Imagining a time when more than ...

Although media access to federal and state prisons and the inmates they house may not be constitutionally guaranteed, state law… Although media access to federal and state prisons and the inmates they ...

News Media & The Law photo by Jamie Schuman Spectators line up outside the Supreme Court hoping to get one… It was pouring rain the last day the Supreme Court heard oral argument this spring, but that ...

Adam A. Marshall is a senior staff attorney at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. His work includes litigation in federal and state courts and training journalists on government ...

Christina Piaia (she/her) is the legal manager for Protecting Journalists Pro Bono Program at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. She oversees legal intakes for pro bono matters ...