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Chicago CBS affiliate ordered to turn over unedited interview footage

Incident Details

Date of incident: February 12, 2020
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Targets: Derek Dalton (WBBM-TV)

Legal orders →: subpoena for communications or work product

Feb. 12, 2020: Pending

Feb. 26, 2020: Objected to

Aug. 3, 2020: Quashed
Legal order target →: Institution
Legal order venue →: Federal

Chicago CBS2 reporter subpoenaed for aired and unpublished footage

Incident Details

Date of incident: February 12, 2020
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Targets: Dave Savini (WBBM-TV)

Legal orders →: national security letter for communications or work product

Feb. 12, 2021: Pending

Feb. 26, 2021: Objected to

Aug. 3, 2022: Partially upheld
Legal order target →: Journalist
Legal order venue →: Federal

NYPD arrests photojournalist, charges him with disorderly conduct

Incident Details

Updated on: April 9, 2025
Date of incident: February 11, 2020
Location: New York, New York
Case number: 1:21-cv-06610
Targets: Amr Alfiky (ABC News)
Case status: Settled
Type of case: Civil

Arrest status →: Arrested and released
Arresting authority →: New York City Police Department
Charges →: Obstruction: disorderly conduct

Feb. 11, 2020: Charges pending

May 17, 2020: Charges dropped
Unnecessary use of force? →: No

Equipment searched or seized →: Press identification, 1
Status of equipment →: Returned in full
Search warrant obtained →: No

Utah State Legislature suspends editor’s media credential

Incident Details

Date of incident: February 11, 2020
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Targets: Bob Bernick (Utah Policy)

Government agency or public official involved →: State government: Legislature
Type of denial →: Press credential or media list

Comstock’s former editor accused of deleting the magazine’s YouTube account

Incident Details

Updated on: July 19, 2021
Date of incident: February 10, 2020
Location: Sacramento, California
Targets: Comstock’s

Equipment damaged →: Social media account, 1
Actor →: Private individual

Subpoena issued for watchdog blog’s documents, communications

Incident Details

Updated on: April 11, 2024
Date of incident: February 7, 2020
Location: Stark County, Illinois
Targets: Edgar County Watchdogs

Legal orders →: subpoena for communications or work product

Feb. 7, 2020: Pending

March 1, 2020: Objected to

Unknown date: Ignored
Legal order target →: Institution
Legal order venue →: Federal

Journalist barred from recording, removed from New Mexico Senate proceeding

Incident Details

Date of incident: February 6, 2020
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Targets: Rachel Knapp (KRQE)

Government agency or public official involved →: State government: Legislature
Type of denial →: Government event

CNN anchors excluded from lunch with president ahead of State of the Union

Incident Details

Date of incident: February 4, 2020
Location: Washington, District of Columbia
Targets: CNN

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Journalist has phone knocked to ground by police while recording NYC protest

Incident Details

Date of incident: January 31, 2020
Location: New York, New York
Targets: Ashoka Jegroo (Independent)

Assailant →: Law enforcement
Was the journalist targeted? →: Yes

Tennessee lawmaker introduces bill to declare CNN, Washington Post ‘fake news’

Incident Details

Date of incident: January 29, 2020
Location: Nashville, Tennessee
Targets: CNN, The Washington Post

Chilling Statement

Journalist subpoenaed for communications in ongoing defamation suit

Incident Details

Date of incident: January 29, 2020
Location: Sherman, Texas
Targets: Cassandra Fairbanks (The Gateway Pundit)

Legal orders →: subpoena for communications or work product

Jan. 29, 2020: Pending
Legal order target →: Journalist
Legal order venue →: Federal

Court denies motion to quash subpoena against journalist working on book about 1993 NY murder

Incident Details

Updated on: November 16, 2021
Date of incident: January 29, 2020
Location: Lockport, New York
Targets: Samantha Christmann (Freelance)

Legal orders →: subpoena for other testimony

Jan. 29, 2020: Pending

June 1, 2020: Objected to

Jan. 21, 2021: Upheld

Nov. 16, 2021: Dropped
Legal order target →: Journalist
Legal order venue →: State

State Department removes NPR reporter from official trip

Incident Details

Date of incident: January 27, 2020
Location: Washington, District of Columbia
Targets: National Public Radio

Government agency or public official involved →: Federal government: Agency
Type of denial →: Government event

Chilling Statement

State agency sends cease and desist letter to NBC journalists

Incident Details

Date of incident: January 24, 2020
Location: Madison, Wisconsin
Targets: Mike Hixenbaugh (NBC News), Janelle Richards (NBC News)

Chilling Statement

Two journalists attacked, news van vandalized while covering Puerto Rico protests

Incident Details

Date of incident: January 23, 2020
Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Targets: Kefrén Velázquez (WAPA-TV)

Assailant →: Unknown
Was the journalist targeted? →: Yes

NotiCentro vehicle vandalized during Puerto Rico protests

Incident Details

Date of incident: January 23, 2020
Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Targets: WAPA-TV

Equipment damaged →: Vehicle, 1
Actor →: Private individual

NotiCentro photojournalist attacked with reporter while covering Puerto Rico protests

Incident Details

Date of incident: January 23, 2020
Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Targets: Luis Ojeda (WAPA-TV)

Assailant →: Private individual
Was the journalist targeted? →: Yes

California shop owner charged with assaulting journalists, breaking camera equipment

Incident Details

Updated on: March 10, 2021
Date of incident: January 20, 2020
Location: La Mesa, California
Targets: Dan Plante (KUSI-TV)

Assailant →: Private individual
Was the journalist targeted? →: Yes

Shop owner charged with assaulting journalists, breaking Univision equipment

Incident Details

Updated on: March 10, 2021
Date of incident: January 20, 2020
Location: La Mesa, California
Targets: Claudia Buccio (Univision)

Assailant →: Private individual
Was the journalist targeted? →: Yes

Equipment damaged →: Camera, 1
Actor →: Private individual

Shop owner in California charged with assaulting journalists, breaking camera equipment

Incident Details

Updated on: March 10, 2021
Date of incident: January 20, 2020
Location: La Mesa, California
Targets: Michael Saucedo (KUSI-TV)

Assailant →: Private individual
Was the journalist targeted? →: Yes

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