Coalition News

Media Coalition Asks Court to Unseal Search Warrant Targeting Protesters Kept Under Seal for Two YearsFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Updated: The court on Nov. 10 granted the motion to unseal but delayed release of the records pending further proceedings. LOS ANGELES — California government watchdog group First Amendment Coalition and independent news organization Knock LA this week are asking a court to unseal a two-year-old search warrant obtained by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department to search the cell phones

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The letter follows Mendocino County’s passage of an ordinance imposing high fees on public records requesters.

Applications are now closed The First Amendment Coalition (FAC) seeks an experienced development director to oversee and accelerate FAC’s successful fundraising work, which has fueled an expansion of our budget, our staff and, most importantly, our impact in advancing press freedoms, free expression and government transparency.  Nonpartisan and nonprofit, FAC believes that the broadest range of engaged and informed communities is essential to the health of our democracy – that the values expressed by the