Pardon Power and Your Right to Know
David Snyder
September 17, 2021
Transparency in the clemency process is an important check on governor’s power, David Snyder writes.
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Watch: Accessing Police Misconduct Records in California with KQED
FAC
September 17, 2021
FAC Live: Accessing Police Misconduct Records with KQED’s ‘On Our Watch’ Journalists and open-government lawyers
Obfuscating Mercy: How the California Supreme Court Finally Addressed Secretive Pardons
FAC
September 16, 2021
“The public now has a clearer process for ensuring transparency in clemency proceedings, which is crucial given the extraordinary gubernatorial power at issue.”
Black Lives Matter and the Rise of Anti-Protest Backlash
Cricket Bidleman
September 13, 2021
Q&A with human rights lawyer James Tager on what alarms him most about the legislative response to recent protest movements George Floyd’s murder at the hands of police, captured on cell phone video seen around the world, sparked mass protests for racial justice. A new generation took to the streets and halls of power to raise their voices, leading to real changes in policy and in the way Americans talk about race and policing. But
Understanding the Role of the First Amendment in Civil Rights Movements
Cricket Bidleman
September 13, 2021
Q&A with Constitutional Law Scholar Margaret M. Russell The murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer spurred what historians call the largest protest movement in U.S. history. Over the course of the next year, a reckoning over racial justice prompted concrete changes in policies and politics, and it changed the conversation surrounding racial justice forever. But Black Lives Matter, like major civil rights and social justice movements before it, has also generated backlash,
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