covering police

This guide helps journalists understand their rights at protests and how to avoid arrest when reporting on these events.

This map shows current state legislation status and police department policies regarding public access to police worn body camera footage.

Reporters Committee resources do not support conclusion that officers couldn’t reasonably know reporter wasn’t a protester

In a June 7 letter to New York officials, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press strongly urged the…

Update: On April 24, the Alaska Supreme Court ruled that state trooper disciplinary records are confidential as a matter of law, based…

Update: On March 29, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit reversed the district court's decision, ruling…

The Reporters Committee, joined by 31 news organizations, filed a brief in the Third Circuit in support of two individuals…

AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, J.B. Forbes Getty Images photographer Scott Olson is arrested in Ferguson in August 2014. Update: Journalists…