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Federal court issues win for public access, ending nine-year unsealing effort by journalist and Reporters Committee

A nearly decade-long effort to unseal certain court records related to electronic surveillance ended late last month.

April 11, 2022

By Samantha Reilly
Categorized in Court Access
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In re: Application of Jason Leopold and BuzzFeed, Inc. for Access to Certain Sealed Court Records

Case Number: 1:20-mc-00095 Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Clients: Jason Leopold, BuzzFeed Application for Public Access…

September 17, 2020

By Chris Young
Categorized in Court Access
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This Week in Technology + Press Freedom: July 12, 2020

Here’s what the staff of the Technology and Press Freedom Project at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press…

July 13, 2020

By Reporters Committee
Categorized in Policy
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DC Circuit reverses district court ruling on unsealing electronic surveillance records

RCFP, BuzzFeed’s Jason Leopold have been fighting for years for greater public access to electronic surveillance court records.

July 8, 2020

By Sabrina Conza
Categorized in Court Access
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How keeping electronic surveillance records sealed threatens journalists, source communications

In 2010, the Federal Bureau of Investigation seized the content of then-Fox News reporter James Rosen's personal emails using a…

February 8, 2019

By Pariss Briggs
Categorized in Newsgathering
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