Local Legal Initiative

An RCFP attorney is representing Mississippi Today in its fight for public access to the judicial records.

An RCFP attorney represented PennLive in opposing a coroner's effort to seal autopsy records.

The Inquirer and one of its reporters are suing the Philadelphia Police Department for access to police bodycam videos.

Using records obtained with the help of RCFP, journalist Nick Bowlin investigated state regulators’ failure to stop toxic wastewater leaks.

The Penn State police department’s connection to the university “does not isolate it from scrutiny.”

An RCFP attorney is representing journalist Henry Bard in his fight for records under Pennsylvania’s Right-to-Know Law.

An RCFP attorney is representing Oklahoma Voice and The Frontier in the lawsuit.

An RCFP attorney is representing Technical.ly and one of its reporters in the lawsuit.

“This is a meritless attempt to deter reporting,” said RCFP’s Louisiana-based staff attorney, Virginia Hamrick.

An RCFP attorney is representing John Summers, editor of the West Baton Rouge Independent.