During Trump's first term, DHS monitored journalists covering the border and attempted to obtain the identity of reporters’ ...

RCFP is supporting the Nashville Banner’s effort to unseal documents related to a trial judge’s decision to recuse herself from a criminal case.

Background: On two separate occasions in 2019, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents conducted warrantless searches of Ezhil Kamaldoss’s electronic devices at John F. Kennedy International Airport ...

Background: In 2018, professor Lawrence Kalbers filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking access to records from the U.S. Department of Justice concerning its high-profile prosecution of ...

Background: A trial court in the District of Columbia used a “husher” to prevent the public from hearing any of the answers that prospective jurors gave to questions posed to them during jury ...

The Reporter’s Recording Guide provides a summary of the recording laws (which restrict the recording and dissemination of phone calls and in-person conversations) and hidden camera laws (which ...

Journalists who lie on employment applications to gain access to private facilities for newsgathering activities are not protected by… Journalists who lie on employment applications to gain access to ...

Balloons descend after Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's acceptance speech during the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya) The Reporters ...

From the Spring 2003 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 6. From the Spring 2003 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 6. The following are reprinted from the Pentagon guidelines for embedded ...

AP Photo The Florida Legislature passed the Earnhardt Family Protection Act after The Orlando Sentinel requested photographs from the autopsy… Florida’s reputation for having one of the best open ...