PEN America: NYPD Proposed Press Rules Are Attack on Free Press
July 17, 2020
July 17, 2020
NEW YORK, July 17 -- PEN America issued the following statement by Nora Benavidez, director of U.S. free expression programs:
Amid hundreds of reports of police targeting journalists and attacking freedom of the press, the New York Police Department this week proposed new rules to bar journalists from covering official police activity.
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"The New York Police Department's new proposal is a blatant effort to weaken our free press. It would grant ex . . .
Amid hundreds of reports of police targeting journalists and attacking freedom of the press, the New York Police Department this week proposed new rules to bar journalists from covering official police activity.
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"The New York Police Department's new proposal is a blatant effort to weaken our free press. It would grant ex . . .