Read our 2021 Impact Report, highlighting our effective advocacy, education and litigation to advance and defend the First Amendment and your right to know.
The State Bar’s public statements after a data disclosure represent unacceptable veiled threats for publishing information of public concern.
Loy will direct FAC’s strategic litigation program, enforcing California and federal open-government laws and defending First Amendment rights.
People sound their car horns every day to express themselves. It’s common, part of the American tradition — and it’s also a type of expression protected by the First Amendment. But in California, expressive horn use is against the law. That’s why the First Amendment Coalition is supporting a federal civil rights case brought by the ACLU Foundation of San Diego & Imperial Counties that aims to limit when the government can ticket someone for
Awardees produced investigative journalism projects that advanced freedom of expression or access to information.