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    Police Failed to Tell Judge of Bryan Carmody’s Status as Journalist Before Obtaining Warrant, Unsealed Records Show

    Police failed to tell the judge who issued a search warrant for Bryan Carmody’s phone that Carmody is a journalist, records unsealed today show—a key omission that helps explain how the San Francisco Police Department was able to obtain warrants for Carmody’s phone, home and office in clear violation of California and federal law. […]

    July 23, 2019

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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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    Fifth Judge Sides with FAC, Orders Release of Records in Bryan Carmody Raid

    The First Amendment Coalition has prevailed in unsealing a fifth and final warrant that targeted freelance journalist Bryan Carmody, capping a months-long fight for transparency in the now-infamous raid that drew widespread condemnation. A San Francisco judge on Aug. 22 issued an order granting FAC’s motion to unseal a warrant application for a search […]

    September 3, 2019

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    FAC Again Prevails in Unsealing Search Warrants Executed on SF Journalist Bryan Carmody

    Three San Francisco judges on Friday ordered the public release of sealed applications for three search warrants executed on freelance journalist Bryan Carmody —for his home, office and phone. The release of these materials should help answer a central question in the Carmody saga: how the San Francisco Police Department was able to obtain […]

    August 5, 2019

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    The Bryan Carmody Story In-Depth

    On May 10, 2019, San Francisco police showed up at the home of freelance journalist Bryan Carmody, equipped with a sledgehammer and pickax that they used to try to batter down his front gate. Guns drawn, officers placed Carmody in handcuffs for hours while they raided his home and office, seizing a trove of […]

    September 3, 2019

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    FAC Moves to Unseal Search Warrants in Illegal Police Raid on SF Journalist

    The First Amendment Coalition (FAC) today filed a motion to unseal the San Francisco Police Department’s applications for two search warrants in the case of journalist Bryan Carmody, whose home and office police raided last week,sparking national outrage from press advocates, civil libertarians and many others. Why two judges authorized those warrants—which appear to […]

    May 17, 2019

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    Statement by FAC’s David Snyder on Newly Unsealed Carmody Search Warrant Materials

    […] by First Amendment Coalition Executive Director David Snyder: The search warrant application unsealed today shows, beyond any reasonable doubt, that the San Francisco Police Department knew Bryan Carmody is a journalist before they sought a search warrant for his office — and that they provided ample evidence of that fact to the San Francisco […]

    August 6, 2019

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    FAC, SPJ NorCal Announce Efforts to Protect Press Freedom One Year After Raid on Journalist

    One year ago this week, San Francisco police conducted a raid on journalist Bryan Carmody, a widely condemned attack on press freedom and a plain violation of California’s shield law protections. State and federal law protects journalists from having to disclose their sources or any unpublished information collected during newsgathering to the government — […]

    May 12, 2020

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    FAC Sues San Francisco Police, Mayor Breed for Records Related to Raid on Journalist

    […] Ordinance, an effort to vindicate the public’s right to understand the political and law-enforcement decisions that led to the now infamous May 10 search of journalist Bryan Carmody’s home and office, resulting in the seizure of a vast trove of constitutionally protected information. "City leaders have made an awful situation worse by stonewalling our […]

    August 21, 2019

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    Trumping Trump: California’s Attack on the First Amendment

    […] the disgrace San Francisco officials visited upon the First Amendment, and themselves, on May 10. That morning, San Francisco police raided the home of freelance journalist Bryan Carmody,  using a sledgehammer to bash the security gate to his apartment. Police kept Carmody in handcuffs while they searched his home, and then his office near […]

    May 21, 2019