A rule blocks remote public access to records filed in immigration cases, complicating journalists’ efforts to cover ...

WHQR reported the new details using public records obtained with free legal support from an attorney at the Reporters ...

The ruling is the latest victory RCFP attorneys have won on behalf of news outlets challenging the constitutionality of ...

Policing and corrections Reporters Committee attorneys provide free legal support to journalists who cover policing and corrections. Across the country, our attorneys have successfully fought to ...

Background: In June 2025, a 15-year-old girl was charged with first-degree murder after she allegedly fatally shot a man in Meigs County, Tennessee. The Meigs County Juvenile Court held a detention ...

The PRESS Act, which now heads to the Senate, is the strongest federal shield legislation proposed to date.

The move could pose a threat to public interest newsgathering and the ability of the press to serve its watchdog function.

The Oregonian, represented by an RCFP attorney, reached an agreement with The Dalles to disclose how much water Google uses to cool its data centers.

Last week, I wrote a post on “A Century of Repression,” Ralph Engelman and Carey Shenkman’s new book on press freedom and the Espionage Act of 1917. In doing so, I carelessly asserted, without ...

This year saw important First Amendment victories and dangerous close calls, along with cryptic developments that will have to be hashed out in the lower courts.

On May 23, 2019, a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia returned a superseding indictment against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. The indictment adds 17 counts under the Espionage ...