Without reliable information about what the government is doing, or failing to do, the public is unable to conduct oversight ...

Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ...

BenitoLink’s right to document government activities in public spaces … is firmly established,” RCFP and BenitoLink argue in a letter to county officials.

Feder will oversee RCFP’s growing program to provide free legal support to local journalists and newsrooms, which is now ...

KUSA-9 News sued the police department for access to unedited bodycam videos with free legal support from an RCFP attorney.

T]he right and ability of the press to document law enforcement ... activity safely and effectively is foundational to ...

Closing courtroom doors to a journalist attending a public immigration proceeding is unlawful and damaging to public transparency.” ...

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 April 2025, Ashlynd Huffman, a reporter for The Frontier, submitted an open records request to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections seeking reports on the death of an inmate and other ...

Dozens of high-profile musicians on Thursday demanded the release of song titles that were played repetitively as a coercive interrogation technique at Guantanamo Bay and signed onto a public records ...

Instead of receiving responses to their requests for government records under the California Public Records Act, some journalists and news outlets have been served with lawsuits seeking to keep ...

The settlement comes after Spotlight PA filed an open meetings lawsuit against Penn State’s governing body with free legal support from RCFP attorneys.