The actions “constituted an egregious affront to the First Amendment right of the press and public to access court proceedings.” The Reporters Committee is condemning both a Louisiana judge’s decision ...

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 ...

If the charges are upheld, federal officials would gain a powerful tool to suppress news reporting in the public interest.

Evan Osnos, left, a Livingston Awards national judge and staff writer at The New Yorker, presents the 2026 Livingston Award for local reporting to William Skipworth, a reporter for the New Hampshire ...

A Reporters Committee attorney helped Blue Surveillance obtain video documenting an officer holding a gun to an unarmed man’s head. A screen grab from police bodycam footage obtained by Blue ...

Background: Following their coverage of an immigration enforcement protest at a Minnesota church in January 2026, independent journalists Georgia Fort and Don Lemon were arrested by federal ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anti-SLAPP laws provide defendants a way to quickly dismiss meritless lawsuits—known as “SLAPPs” or “Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation”—filed against them for exercising their First ...