Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is a U.S. Senate floor vote away from permanently serving as the nation’s top law ...

“The State of Secrecy” was a powerful project that helped shape Indiana’s public access laws into what we know today. In ...

New reporting from The New York Times indicates that a freelancer has been fighting a subpoena he received in February of this year after reporting about a failed Navy SEAL Team 6 mission that took ...

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A screen grab of a police body-worn camera video capturing the aftermath of Tyre Nichols's arrest on Jan. 7, 2023. Last week, the city of Memphis released 21 hours of audio and video recordings that ...

The Local Legal Initiative provides local news organizations with the direct legal services they need to pursue enterprise and investigative stories in their communities. If you’re a journalist that ...

A growing consensus of courts have recognized a constitutional right to record government officials engaged in their duties in a public place. This First Amendment right to record generally ...

Police departments across the nation are implementing body-worn camera programs in an effort to create a more objective record of officers’ activities. As recent news events have proved, these videos ...

Alaska Although compliance by law enforcement agencies is uneven, 911 tapes should be presumptively disclosable under the Public Records Act. The Legislature has considered a bill that would exempt ...

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press monitors subpoenas and other legal threats targeting journalists, and helps those facing government attempts to force them to testify about or disclose ...