Allowing clawbacks of records released during public records litigation would disincentivize pre-litigation compliance with ...

Proposed changes to Puerto Rico’s public records law “would significantly diminish government transparency,” RCFP argues.

Police bodycams were meant to deliver transparency, but in Pennsylvania, Act 22 makes that promise harder to keep.

This is an important win not just for LNP but for the promise of transparency in the Commonwealth,” said RCFP Staff Attorney ...

Background: In 2020, police arrested public radio journalist April Fonseca while she was reporting on a sweep of a homeless ...

Update: On Oct. 30, 2025, Indiana University reversed its decision to cut future print editions and bar the Indiana Daily Student from printing news. The same day, the newspaper’s former adviser sued ...

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and 26 media organizations are urging the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to scrap, or at least revise, a proposed policy that would limit the ...

Background: In May 2025, Guardian U.S. Data Editor Will Craft submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement seeking access to deportation records dating ...

Today, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press announced the recipients of the 2025 Freedom of the Press Awards, hosted this year by Judy Woodruff, senior correspondent and the former anchor ...

Editor’s note: This analysis was updated on May 2 to reflect the Justice Department’s revised regulation published on May 1. On April 25, Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a memorandum to all U.S.

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press announced Leslie Briggs as its Oklahoma Local Legal Initiative staff attorney, adding capacity to the program that operates in five states providing ...

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 ...