Local Legal Initiative

Police bodycams were meant to deliver transparency, but in Pennsylvania, Act 22 makes that promise harder to keep.

Journalist Calvin Godfrey is represented by RCFP Local Legal Initiative Attorney Paula Knudsen Burke.

“This is an important win not just for LNP but for the promise of transparency in the Commonwealth."

The four news organizations are represented by RCFP attorney Paul McAdoo.

Represented by an RCFP attorney, the news outlets argue that the restrictions violate state rules governing access to juvenile proceedings.

An RCFP attorney is representing three news outlets in their fight to access court records.

An RCFP attorney represents The Sentinel in a dispute over the news outlet’s ability to recover fees in a lawsuit.

News outlets are challenging Tennessee's restrictions on press access to executions.

Represented by RCFP attorneys, a media coalition argues that Tennessee’s restrictions on press access to executions are unconstitutional.

Spotlight PA was represented by attorneys from RCFP and the Cornell Law School First Amendment Clinic.