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On February 1, the University of California, Berkeley, shut down a speech by the divisive right-wing writer Milo Yiannopoulos after chaos erupted on the school’s campus.  FAC Executive Director David Snyder discussed the First Amendment implications of the incident with host Madeleine Brand on the public-affairs program “Press Play,” KCRW radio in Los Angeles. [su_button url=” http://kcrw.co/2l2xgpl” target=”blank” style=”flat” background=”#06b2e4″ color=”#0b0707″ wide=”yes” radius=”0″ icon_color=”#ffffff” desc=”(7min. 21sec.)” class=”div { font-size:x-small; }”]Click to Listen[/su_button]

FAC has been hard at work in state and federal court, fighting to keep government transparent and our elected leaders accountable.  Here are brief summaries of some recent developments in select FAC cases: Drone Memo Case: FAC in the Ninth Circuit  FAC lawyers were in court again last month in a lawsuit that helped bring once-secret U.S. Department of Justice memos to public light.  The memos, analyzing the legality of killing U.S. citizens with weaponized

The California Press Foundation honored FAC’s outgoing executive director Peter Scheer of the First Amendment Coalition with its Jack Bates Award on Dec. 1, 2016, at the 139th Annual Cal Press Winter Meeting at the Marines’ Memorial Club and Hotel in San Francisco. Scheer has been the executive director of the First Amendment Coalition since 2004. Before joining FAC, Scheer was editor and publisher of The Recorder, a daily legal newspaper in San Francisco; publisher of