FAC Opposes Effort to Keep Autopsy Reports Secret
AB 268 runs afoul of the First Amendment and would allow a troubling level of secrecy in death investigations.
As a nonprofit, we do not lobby the California Legislature. However, we do engage in oversight of the legislative process, working with legislators and committee staffs, and providing testimony in support of First Amendment-friendly bills, and against bills that would turn the clock back. In a major effort, the Coalition authored and sponsored FOI legislation, ultimately put before the voters and enacted in 2004 as “Proposition 59,” to amend the California constitution to include a right to open-government.
AB 268 runs afoul of the First Amendment and would allow a troubling level of secrecy in death investigations.
SB 16 would expand the types of police actions that would be subject to the California Public Records Act.
FAC supports the measure introduced by state Sen. Mike McGuire that would strengthen press protections at the scene of protests.
The First Amendment Coalition supports a measure under consideration in the California Legislature that would improve police transparency, building on the landmark Right to Know Act, or SB 1421, which took effect in 2019. Senate
The First Amendment Coalition supports a California bill that would help ensure members of the news media covering protests are protected from physical assault, arrest, or obstruction of their news gathering activities by law enforcement
The First Amendment Coalition supports a bill to be heard next week in the California Senate Judiciary Committee that would help prevent abusive litigation by public agencies against members of the public who request records