FAC urged the California Supreme Court to take up a Public Records Act case over access to COVID-19 data.
A message from Executive Director David Snyder A global pandemic. Journalists under attack. A nationwide cry for social justice and police accountability. This past year’s extraordinary events highlighted like never before the importance of FAC’s work combatting government secrecy and standing up for free speech, a free press and the public’s right to know. With your support, FAC has mobilized to protect these rights — to make a healthier democracy possible by: Ensuring public access to court proceedings, despite
Gift fuels FAC’s efforts to make governments at all levels more transparent and accountable to the people.
The legal fellow works directly with journalists and others to help them access public records and government meetings, while also contributing to a range of First Amendment and open-government litigation.
An overview of censorship, defamation and reporter shield laws.