Reform legislation aimed at improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the Freedom of Information Act is beginning to look a lot like many FOIA requests: it sits in a queue waiting for official ...

Author’s Note: The author gratefully acknowledges Ryan R. Relyea (the current and some prior editions) and Azeezat Adeleke, Brian C. Earl, Daniel Heng, Aaron Johansen and John F. Blevins (prior ...

Allowing clawbacks of records released during public records litigation would disincentivize pre-litigation compliance with ...

Proposed changes to Puerto Rico’s public records law “would significantly diminish government transparency,” RCFP argues.

When freedom of the press in the U.S. is under threat, journalists know that they have one place to go — the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. When they reach out to our free legal hotline ...

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 ...

Background: In 2020, police arrested public radio journalist April Fonseca while she was reporting on a sweep of a homeless ...

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 ...

When Adam Marshall joined the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in 2014, the organization was the epitome of a small nonprofit: The team consisted of an executive director, two permanent ...