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For Sunshine Week, CFAC to lead LA discussion on national security and 1st Amendment
[…] The Nation, columnist for L.A. Weekly, and is a frequent contributor to The Atlantic and blogger for the Huffington Post. "This partnership provides an exciting and creative new avenue to engage people in the discussion about how important it is to our democracy to protect people's right to information โ no matter whether it […]June 2, 2009
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California Brown Act Primer
The Ralph M. Brown Act, one of Californiaโs main sunshine laws, is intended to provide public access to meetings of local government agencies.September 8, 2024
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Handbooks
Police Transparency Handbook
This resource is designed to help you navigate the law to access police use-of-force and officer misconduct records under the California Public Records Act.September 6, 2024
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FAC names free speech award winners–and one loser
[…] also has presented its "Darkness Award," given in recognition of conduct that thwarts freedom of speech. The Bill Farr Award, given jointly with the California Society of Newspaper Editors, goes to Carl Malamud, whose campaigns to put government information into the public domain have resulted in the EDGAR database of SEC filings, free and […]October 22, 2009
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California First Amendment Coalition to Tell Congressional Commission that Chinaโs Internet Censorship Violates WTO Treaties
[…] are feared by the government as potential platforms for self-expression by Chinese citizens. Some major websites subject to recent blocking, according to CFAC, are: YouTube (www.youtube.com) BBC News (news. bbc.co.uk) Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.com) LiveJournal (www.livejournal.com) Tripod (www.tripod.lycos.com) Technorati (www.technorati.com) WordPress (www.wordpress.com) Xanga (www.xanga.com) Blogeasy (www.blogeasy.com) Flickr (www.flickr.com) .Mac (www.apple.com/dotmac) Also blocked by the Great Firewall […]June 3, 2009
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Facebook’s New Graph Search Is Google’s Nightmare Come True
By PETER SCHEER--Although the stock market yawned at Facebook's announcement of "Graph Search," its new search service, with investors wagering it would only hurt smaller, vertical search services like Yelp and Linkedin, the truth is that it is potentially much more significant than that. For the last several years Google's management has had two […]January 16, 2013
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FAC Succeeds in Unsealing Search Warrant Executed on SF Journalist Bryan Carmody
A San Francisco judge yesterday ordered police to publicly release sealed documents relating to a search warrant executed on freelance journalist Bryan Carmody, whose home and office were raided by SFPD in an unlawful show of force that shocked journalists and free-press advocates across the country. The order, the result of a motion filed […]July 19, 2019
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Google’s Antitrust Wrist Slap Is Right Result for Wrong Reason. Right Reason: Google Search Results are Protected Speech
[…] results, and the presentation generally of website pages responsive to a search -- these choices constitute editorial functions, subject to the strongest safeguards for free speech. The New York Times (or The Huffington Post, Wired.com or other reputable news organization of your choice) gets to decide -- free from government interference -- what articles […]January 7, 2013
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The first amendment is in trouble when EU bureaucrats get to decide what US citizens can read on US-based websites
[…] search results and has agreed to approximately 40 percent of those requests, ranging from random website postings that no one cares about to an article in the New York Times. It has complied with Right to be the Forgotten rulingย by removing search results and links on the foreign language versions of the Google search […]December 15, 2014