Legal Hotline

Calling RCFP’s free legal hotline “really helped me navigate the story to the best of our ability."

“A service like this is really important not only for reporters but for the people we do our jobs for.”

“You can’t beat the response time, the knowledge, the advice, the willingness to take this on.”

The free hotline will work with criminal defense attorneys in D.C. and 10 states in preparation for armed protests.

Requests to the Reporters Committee’s legal hotline spiked dramatically in 2020, as journalists covered the pandemic, protests.

The hotline will be staffed by RCFP attorneys in Washington, D.C., and 12 battleground states until polls close.

The financial barriers to public records litigation are not always as daunting as some reporters or editors may expect.

Police aggressions against journalists covering the protests have proved to be an inflection point for violence against the news media.