Freedom of Information Act

A FOIA case litigated by attorneys from RCFP and Ballard Spahr may have helped resolve the journalist’s fight for asylum.

RCFP analysis provides important insights into government’s use of “Glomar” doctrine to “neither confirm nor deny” existence of records

Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Date Filed: March 6, 2024 Background: In 2018, the…

“The Reporters Committee was just invaluable to this whole project,” said Steve Coll, author of “The Achilles Trap."

Case Number: 1:24-cv-00009 Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Client: Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press…

Case Number: 1:23-cv-03741 Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Client: Mark Betancourt Complaint Filed: Dec. 15, 2023…

RCFP attorneys helped Codebreaker Films obtain audio recordings of FBI agents interrogating Reality Winner.

Marc Perrusquia, represented by an RCFP attorney, sued the Tennessee Valley Authority last year for access to salary records.

It's a positive result, but not one entirely free of lingering concern.

The CIA director said he would personally look into a wiretapping operation in the 1960s against a columnist.