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Mass Arrests of Protesters: Outrageous in Russia, Barely Worth Mentioning in US

July 13, 2017

FAIR reports: Major media’s relative lack of interest in the mass arrests by Metro DC police on Inauguration Day is a fact noted by activists and journalists since the incident almost six months ago.

July 3, 2017

The ODCA issued a report criticizing MPD for refusing to release to the PCJF documents regarding Chief Peter Newsham's controversial handling of the J20 protests against the incoming Trump Administration.

July 3, 2017

In a 2017 report by the D.C. Auditor, the office recommended that MPD release public records regarding law enforcement's treatment of protestors to the PCJF.

June 20, 2017

“The Supreme Court has let stand a Second Circuit ruling that poses a clear and present danger to democracy, free speech and a free press,” says Mara Verheyden-Hilliard to U.S. News and World Report

June 1, 2017

Justices are being asked to require police to warn peaceful protesters before mass-arresting them, U.S. News reports.

May 1, 2017

Alexei Wood live-streamed his every move and utterance to Facebook. Now he’s one of the last journalists to face charges, U.S. News reports.

April 28, 2017

After exhibiting Rigo23's statue of longtime political prisoner Leonard Peltier, AU immediately capitulated to the FBI Agent's Association's demand that the statue be removed, in the process publicly decapitating the statue and extinguishing free expression.

April 12, 2017

Lost between the tumult of Inauguration Day and the spectacle of the Women's March was the arrest of 214 protesters—now facing felony charges and 10 years in prison.

April 10, 2017

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press filed an amicus curiae brief asking the Supreme Court to rule that police must provide fair warning…

March 24, 2017

Reprint from WTOP WASHINGTON — The organization that helped sue D.C. police over then-Assistant Chief Peter Newsham’s handling of anti-globalism protests in 2002 now alleges…

March 23, 2017

The PCJF filed a FOIA complaint against D.C. MPD in 2017 over the department's failure to produce records regarding law enforcement's handling of protests against the Trump administration on January 20, 2017.

March 8, 2017

The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund and co-counsel Paul Hughes of Mayer Brown LLP and the Yale Law School Supreme Court Clinic have filed a…

Free Speech

Mass Arrests of Protesters: Outrageous in Russia, Barely Worth Mentioning in US

D.C. Auditor Tells Police To Disclose Trump Protest Report to the PCJF

D.C. Auditor Report on MPD’s Surveillance of Protests- 2017

Supreme Court Passes on Mass Arrests

Supreme Court Considers Mass Arrests Without Warning

Independent Journalist Now Faces 70 Years in Prison After Inauguration Mass Arrest

Free Artistic Expression on Campus Extinguished Under Pressure from FBI Agent’s Association

Esquire: How the Government is Turning Protesters into Felons

Brooklyn Bridge (Garcia) – Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Amicus Brief 2017

Lawsuit: DC police withholding reports on protest response

J20 MPD FOIA Complaint – 2017

Supreme Court Petition filed in Landmark Mass Protest Arrest Case

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