FAC’s Top Sunshine Week Resources
Every week is Sunshine Week at FAC, where we are fighting for government transparency and your right to know all year round. As Sunshine Week comes to a close this year, we wanted to share some of our top resource.
Every week is Sunshine Week at FAC, where we are fighting for government transparency and your right to know all year round. As Sunshine Week comes to a close this year, we wanted to share some of our top resource.
Emilie Raguso was initially asked to narrow the scope of the request, first made in July 2023. She did so immediately in August 2023, but has not received documents responsive to her request or justification for why any documents are being withheld since.
These winners exemplify the best of advancing open government and freedom of information.
With Davis Wright Tremaine, FAC filed an amicus brief in Martinez v. ZoomInfo Techs., Inc. to defend longstanding Ninth Circuit precedent that the denial of an anti-SLAPP motion in federal court is subject to immediate appeal, as it is in state court, rather than at the end of the case, which is typical in federal court.
Today, FAC sent the following letter to John Ortega, President of the Orange Unified School District (OUSD) Board of Education, asking him to retract a comment he made at the January 18 school board meeting. At that meeting, Ortega, referring to certain flyers related to a recall campaign of two school board members that contained “school photos,” said, “That is completely inappropriate spreading misinformation about OUSD sponsoring such a thing,” and stated, “We are looking