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 ...
Represented by an RCFP attorney, the news outlets argue that the restrictions violate state rules governing access to ...
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Local Legal Initiative Attorney Paul McAdoo is representing a Tennessee news ...
Journalist Marisa Kabas, who has reported on the takeover, submitted a public records request to the MPD for body-worn camera ...
Journalist Maya Lau, co-represented by RCFP attorneys, sued LA County for unlawfully investigating her in retaliation for her reporting about police misconduct.
Agency independence plays an important role in protecting the free press, RCFP argues in a friend-of-the-court brief.
A New York City family had no basis to sue a photographer who surreptitiously captured images of his neighbors from his own apartment window and later displayed and sold the same images at a public ...
Newsrooms across the country are facing a growing wave of legal attacks aimed at silencing investigative reporting about powerful people and institutions. Especially for independent journalists or ...
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 Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania has ordered the state Department of Education to provide Spotlight PA with internal Penn State University Board of Trustees records that could shed light on how ...