In a win for press freedom rights and free expression, the city of San Francisco and state of California have agreed to settle a lawsuit over the public’s ability to discuss sealed arrest records.
FIRE continues to survey and report on violations of individual rights, making sure protesters and journalists alike do not face punishment for exercising their First Amendment rights.
In 1892, a mob destroyed a Memphis newspaper after it published an anti lynching editorial. Through death threats and violence, they tried to erase journalist Ida B. Wells’s message. Instead, they made her fight impossible to ignore.
Best-selling author Jeffrey Rosen, one of America’s foremost historians and legal analysts, has joined FIRE as a senior fellow and launched a new podcast.
