Journalists and newsrooms across Minnesota now have additional free legal support as Reporters Committee establishes a permanent, full-time presence in the state.
Twin Cities-based attorney Christopher Proczko has joined Reporters Committee to represent journalists and news organizations in public records disputes, pre-publication legal review, and other First Amendment and newsgathering matters — all at no cost to them.
The expansion builds on more than a decade of work by Reporters Committee on behalf of Minnesota journalists, from providing amicus support to independent outlet Unicorn Riot against a multi-year subpoena fight tied to its Dakota Access Pipeline coverage, to pressing state and federal officials over the treatment of reporters during the 2020 protests following the murder of George Floyd, to most recently rallying news industry support for the dismissal of federal charges against independent journalists Georgia Fort and Don Lemon.
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