The Baltimore Police Department has improved how it handles First Amendment-protected activities, including how officers address protests and respond to citizens recording police or criticizing ...

On Wednesday, police arrested 57 people, including one journalist, on charges of criminal trespassing on the University of Texas at Austin’s campus during a protest against Israel’s ongoing attacks on ...

In May, Reason wrote about the trend of "First Amendment auditors," activists who film in government buildings in order to test the limits of what is and is not allowed. One in particular, SeanPaul ...

Law enforcement officers raided the office of the Marion County Record newspaper and a journalist's home. First Amendment experts are calling it a likely violation of federal law, and an "abuse of ...

Cohen is the author of the new book Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's 50-Year Battle for a More Unjust America When protesters gather in Chicago this week to express their views about the NATO ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis voters on Tuesday rejected a proposal to replace the city’s police department with a new Department of Public Safety, an idea that supporters had hoped would bring radical ...

Another circuit court has affirmed the First Amendment right of members of the public to record police performing their duties in public. Earlier this month, the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ...

Voters across Missouri are being asked to weigh in this November on a measure that specifically targets how much Kansas City spends on its police. Above, Joe Mabin is sworn in as interim police chief ...

The proposal would have also eliminated a minimum staffing requirement. Minneapolis voters rejected a charter amendment to replace the Minneapolis Police Department with a Department of Public Safety ...

Amendment 4 mandates that Kansas City increase its minimum funding of the KCPD from 20% to 25% of its general revenue. This marks the second time Missouri voters approved Amendment 4 to raise Kansas ...