The state violated Tennessee’s public records law by failing to turn over the policy, a Reporters Committee attorney argues ...
If the charges are upheld, federal officials would gain a powerful tool to suppress news reporting in the public interest.
Background: On July 16, 2015, Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez opened fire at two military facilities in Chattanooga, Tennessee, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Background: In 2018, police officers in Waterbury, Connecticut, arrested Keith Massimino after he declined to provide his identification as he was making a video recording of the exterior of the ...
Background: In July 2025, journalist and documentary producer Calvin Godfrey and production company 138 Pictures submitted a public records request seeking, among other things, 911 recordings and ...
Reporters Committee asked several journalists who regularly use FOIA in their work — including a couple of our attorneys’ ...
Public radio journalist Josie Huang reaches $700,000 settlement with LA County, Sheriff’s Department
A screen capture from Josie Huang's cellphone recording shows sheriff's deputies moments after they tackled the journalist to the ground on Sept. 12, 2020. (Courtesy of Josie Huang) Josie Huang, a ...
John Ashcroft’s directive, issued a month after 9/11, reversed FOIA policy at federal departments and agencies. In place of a “presumption of openness” standard, it offered support for any legal ...
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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