Local Legal Initiative

RCFP urged prosecutors to drop charges against April Fonseca Ehrlich, who was arrested in 2020 while reporting on law enforcement.

Spotlight PA, represented by an RCFP attorney, has spent months fighting to access data about Pennsylvania’s medical marijuana program.

The records were made public hours after local news outlets, represented by RCFP attorneys, sought to intervene in the case.

The newspaper's editor says RCFP's local attorney in Oklahoma is like "a human shield and spear.”

RCFP attorneys represented the newspaper in its successful effort to obtain emails from executives of Pennsylvania’s largest pension fund.

“It’s really nice to know I have a lawyer in my back pocket if I need it."

A coalition led by RCFP, PNA raises concerns about restrictions on public access to criminal court records in several counties.

Calling RCFP’s free legal hotline “really helped me navigate the story to the best of our ability."

RCFP attorneys helped the paper reach a settlement requiring Lancaster Township to train employees on the Right to Know Law.

RCFP attorneys are representing five news organizations in their federal civil rights lawsuit against the York County Clerk of Courts.