“Campus Notebook: Unattended gun in Capitol bathroom need not concern the public, Capitol Police argued.”

Roy Gutterman, associate professor of magazine, news and digital journalism in the Newhouse School and director of the Tully Center for Free Speech, was quoted by Roll Call for the article “Campus Notebook: Unattended gun in Capitol bathroom need not concern the public, Capitol Police argued.” In 2015 a firearm was left by a Capitol Police officer in a bathroom in the Capitol Visitor Center, ultimately sparking a debate over whether such an incident should be released to the public. Gutterman, an expert on First Amendment and communications law, says he “can’t imagine a clearer case of a matter of public interest than finding a gun in a Capitol Hill bathroom,” and believes the public should have been notified.