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Through a lawsuit, RCFP attorneys helped Kabas obtain hours of police bodycam footage of the raid. Here’s what it shows.

RCFP attorneys represented journalist Marisa Kabas in a public records lawsuit seeking access to the police bodycam footage.

A journalist is suing the District of Columbia to access bodycam footage of DOGE's takeover at the Institute of Peace.

Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Date Filed: May 2, 2025 Background: In August 2024, Mutlu Civiroglu,…

Journalist Jason Leopold seeks access to U.S. Capitol Police directives that were in effect on Jan. 6, 2021.

The case is one of four matters RCFP attorneys have litigated concerning government investigations involving sitting members of Congress.

RCFP is supporting a challenge to a trial court's use of a white noise machine to shield jury selection.

The question concerns the scope of the reporter’s privilege in the D.C. Circuit.

As RCFP Legal Fellow Emily Hockett writes, the opinion "gutted vital protections against meritless and abusive lawsuits."

Court: District of Columbia Court of Appeals Date Filed: Oct. 26, 2023 Background: In 2015, the American Psychological Association published…