RCFP Hotline for Legal Defense and FOIA Issues

Submit your concerns and request assistance

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is currently hosting an attorney in Oklahoma to address the needs of community newspapers. Please submit your concerns of how your local government entities are handling open meetings, open records and any other government transparency issues.

The Reporters Committee Legal Defense and FOIA Hotline is available to journalists and media lawyers using the form linked below or you can email RCFP (Oklahoma) Attorney Denver Nicks at dnicks@rcfp.org.

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RCFP Local Legal Initiative Attorney

Denver Nicks
September 2023

Denver Nicks is a Local Legal Initiative staff attorney based in Oklahoma. He joins the Reporters Committee from Barnes Law in Tulsa, Oklahoma and received his J.D. from Tulane University Law School.

Before attending law school, Denver had a notable career in journalism. He started as an intern with the Tulsa World before becoming a reporter for The Daily Beast and TIME magazine and editor of the Nuclear Power International and Power Engineering magazines. He has written several books, including Conviction: The Murder Trial that Powered Thurgood Marshall's Fight for Civil Rights in 2019, and many of his freelance articles have been published in Rolling Stone, National Geographic Traveler, Newsweek, The Huffington Post and more.

Partner Organizations

• Oklahoma Press Association
• Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters
• Native American Journalists Association
• Oklahoma Watch
• The Frontier
• StateImpact Oklahoma
• Freedom of Information Oklahoma
• Oklahoma chapter of Society of Professional Journalists

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• Press release and OPA/NAJA statements