RCFP and the Knight Institute argue that warrantless searches of electronic devices at the border violate the First and ...

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.

The repeal of Section 50-a provides the press and public access to police misconduct records, regardless of when those ...

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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 ...

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 ...

From the Winter 2011 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 27. Avi Adelman considers himself a journalist.… From the Winter 2011 issue of The News Media & The Law, page 27. Avi Adelman considers ...

President Barack Obama’s recent assertion of executive privilege in the investigation into Operation Fast and Furious highlights the difficulty journalists can face when invocation of the ...

On the final day of its term, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an attempt to carve out another category of speech from First Amendment protection, striking down a California restriction on the sale or ...

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 ...