Background: The West Baton Rouge Independent is a small news outlet in Louisiana. John Summers is the publisher, editor, and sole reporter for the outlet, which he started in May 2025. In March 2026, ...
Arkansas Death certificates are exempt from the FOIA. They can only be disclosed for research purposes, and the disclosure of information that would identify a person or an institution can only be ...
Several New York Times journalists received subpoenas seeking their testimony before a grand jury.
Background: In April 2026, The Morning Call reporter Lindsay Weber filed a request under Pennsylvania’s Right-to-Know Law ...
A Tennessee judge has blocked the juvenile court in Memphis, Tennessee, from enforcing a policy that unlawfully shuts journalists out of juvenile delinquency proceedings, a decision that could result ...
ProPublica reported last month that a middleman firm helped private investors with addresses in China, Hong Kong, and Russia buy stakes in Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX, including a businessman ...
A decade after the last FOIA reform, RCFP shares its wishlist for improving the well-intended but deeply flawed law.
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is urging the Federal Communications Commission to find that interviews on ABC’s daytime talk show “The View” are exempt from an agency rule that ...
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press today announced the recipients of the 2026 Freedom of the Press Awards, which recognize the accomplishments of leaders in the news media and legal ...
Background: In March 2026, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press filed Freedom of Information Act requests seeking records from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S.