The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press

The Freedom of Information Act is an invaluable tool for reporters to access public records from federal agencies. But government officials frequently exploit FOIA’s flaws to keep records secret, delaying and denying journalists from telling important stories in the public int...

The Reporters Committee is condemning both a Louisiana judge’s decision to eject the press and public from his courtroom and the handcuffing of a reporter and his attorney who tried to object to the unconstitutional closure.

The incident occurred on July 2, 2026, in Judge Leon Roche’s Orleans parish courtroom, where a grand jury was set to return an indictment of t...

The Reporters Committee, joined by 45 news and media organizations, is urging a federal court in Minnesota to throw out indictments against independent journalists Georgia Fort and Don Lemon related to their coverage of an immigration enforcement protest at a St. Paul church earlier this year.

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Last year, New Hampshire Bulletin reporter William Skipworth published a three-part investigation that revealed systemic failures and abuse, neglect, and deaths in the state’s taxpayer-funded disability care network.

The series had an immediate impact, spar...

Nonprofit news outlet Blue Surveillance, with free legal support from a Reporters Committee attorney, recently obtained police body-worn camera footage showing an officer in central Colorado holding a gun to an unarmed man’s head and threatening to shoot him.

The Wheat Ridge Police Department initially refused to disclose the recording in response to a public recor...