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Microsoft, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, and the Reporters Committee team up to provide legal help to local journalists

California now requires police departments to encrypt police radios entirely or adopt a hybrid system.

RCFP argued that access to the names of officers sanctioned for disciplinary violations allows journalists to report on misconduct.

The Supreme Court's opinion credited arguments RCFP made in a friend-of-the-court brief.

The policy change follows revelations that DOJ officials under Presidents Trump and Biden sought to secretly seize reporters’ email records.

The FBI is demanding information from Gannett that could identify the readers of a USA Today article.

The Washington Post and CNN reported last month that their journalists’ communications were also seized by Trump’s DOJ.

The Reporters Committee argues that the history of the FISA courts strongly recommends a public right of access.

The city of Fullerton has abandoned a lawsuit that had dangerous implications for data journalism.

The Trump administration’s efforts to intrude into reporter-source relationships is more sweeping than we originally thought.