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RFK Jr. lied to Congress about 2019 trip to Samoa, according to documents obtained by The Guardian, AP

Documents obtained by The Guardian and The Associated Press indicate that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lied to Congress when he said ...
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Lisi v. Susquehanna Regional Police Department

LancasterOnline reporter Tom Lisi filed a request under Pennsylvania’s Right to Know Law seeking some of the reimbursement ...
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Perrusquia v. Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security

The state violated Tennessee’s public records law by failing to turn over the policy, a Reporters Committee attorney argues ...
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How to file FOIA requests like a pro

Reporters Committee asked several journalists who regularly use FOIA in their work — including a couple of our attorneys’ ...
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Reporters Committee condemns Louisiana courtroom closure, handcuffing of journalist during grand jury indictment

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 ...
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Reporters Committee’s free Legal Hotline helps journalist investigate abuse, neglect in New Hampshire’s disability care system

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 ...
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Police bodycam footage in Colorado exposes ‘egregious’ misconduct

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 ...
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Reporters Committee reviews Todd Blanche’s record on government transparency, leak investigations

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is a U.S. Senate floor vote away from permanently serving as the nation’s top law enforcement official. On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced Blanche ...
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Reporters Committee statement on subpoena issued to New York Times freelancer

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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Pentagon seeks extraordinary new power to evade transparency

This post originally appeared in The Nuance, the Reporters Committee’s newsletter on legal and policy issues at the forefront of a free press. Sign up today! The U.S. Department of Defense is seeking ...
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Reporters Committee statement on DOJ withdrawing subpoenas issued to New York Times journalists

In response to the decision by the U.S. Department of Justice to withdraw subpoenas issued to New York Times reporters after a hearing today, Reporters Committee President Bruce D. Brown made the ...
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Reporters Committee statement on DHS changes to foreign journalist visas

On Friday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security published a new rule limiting the duration of visas for foreign journalists working in the United States. While visas currently allow foreign ...