An attorney for the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is representing the editor of the West Baton Rouge Independent, a small news outlet in Louisiana, to help the journalist fend off a government lawsuit aimed at silencing his reporting.
It’s the first case for the Reporters Committee’s Louisiana-based staff attorney, Virginia Hamrick, who joined the organization last month as part of an expansion of its Local Legal Initiative.
In March, the West Baton Rouge Parish Government and its fire district sued John Summers, the publisher, editor, and sole reporter for the WBR Independent, after he submitted two requests for public records related to the fire district’s response to a recent warehouse fire.
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