To our knowledge, it's unprecedented for the Justice Department to deploy the federal laws it has previously cited in this ...

The Oklahoma State Department of Education, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (Flickr/Joseph) The Oklahoma State Department of Education has reached an agreement with Oklahoma Watch to turn over records ...

RCFP attorneys co-represented The Intercept and The Center for Investigative Reporting in a successful effort to make the records public.

A Pennsylvania judge has ordered state police to release body-worn camera footage capturing a car chase that ended in a fatal ...

The legislation would allow courts to quickly weed out meritless lawsuits intended to chill speech about matters of public interest.

A Tennessee judge has ordered the state to provide journalists expanded access to execution proceedings, finding that its restrictions on news media witnesses likely violated state law and the First ...

These sweeping seizures of a journalist’s records violate the First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, and the Privacy Protection Act.

Background: In July 2025, Oklahoma Voice reporter Barbara Hoberock filed an open records request seeking the Oklahoma ...

The Reporters Committee regularly submits amicus, or “friend-of-the-court,” briefs in state, federal, and U.S. Supreme Court cases where the news media brings an important perspective. Known for ...

Background: In 2023, Business Insider published a three-part series and an accompanying documentary cataloging hundreds of ...

In a hunt for the source of a grand jury leak, lawyers for a Pennsylvania casino owner have demanded that 15 reporters, including several from The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Associated Press, turn ...