First Amendment

The arrest and detention of non-citizen reporters can serve as a potent means of suppressing newsgathering and reporting.

RCFP attorneys are representing a photojournalist in a challenge to federal restrictions that criminalize drone flights near DHS vehicles.

RCFP attorneys are representing photojournalist Rob Levine in challenging the unconstitutional no fly zone.

The town of Bennett, Colorado, had pulled advertising from The I-70 Scout in retaliation for its reporting.

“Bipartisan efforts are needed to counter these threats,” RCFP Vice President of Policy Gabe Rottman testified.

"It's obviously concerning any time journalists are arrested in connection with their reporting."

RCFP attorneys co-represented The Intercept and The Center for Investigative Reporting in a successful effort to make the records public.

The judge sided with arguments RCFP attorneys made in a lawsuit on behalf of a news media coalition.

RCFP is urging a federal court to reject the Pentagon’s media access policy.

“This case is another line in the sand when it comes to a free press,” said RCFP's Gabe Rottman.