During Trump's first term, DHS monitored journalists covering the border and attempted to obtain the identity of reporters’ ...

Background: In April 2024, the Nashville Banner moved to intervene in a criminal court case in Davidson County Criminal Court for the limited purpose of seeking to unseal three documents related to a ...

Background: A trial court in the District of Columbia used a “husher” to prevent the public from hearing any of the answers that prospective jurors gave to questions posed to them during jury ...

Background: In 2018, professor Lawrence Kalbers filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking access to records from the U.S. Department of Justice concerning its high-profile prosecution of ...

Background: On two separate occasions in 2019, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents conducted warrantless searches of Ezhil Kamaldoss’s electronic devices at John F. Kennedy International Airport ...

With Election Day just a week away, journalists across the U.S. are hard at work producing meaningful stories that will inform voters as they head to the polls. But a contentious election can create ...

The Reporter’s Recording Guide provides a summary of the recording laws (which restrict the recording and dissemination of phone calls and in-person conversations) and hidden camera laws (which ...

Police departments across the nation are implementing body-worn camera programs in an effort to create a more objective record of officers’ activities. As recent news events have proved, these videos ...

Asking the Second Circuit to uphold its mandate that the government release the images at issue depicting detainee abuse at… Asking the Second Circuit to uphold its mandate that the government release ...