Coalition News

Welcome to our new website. In addition to a new home (and address) on the internet, we are also announcing our new name. Instead of “California First Amendment Coalition,” the name given this organization at its birth in 1988, we are now just “FIRST AMENDMENT COALITION.” We shrunk our name to confirm our expanding role in First Amendment litigation and policy, and to acknowledge the diminished relevance of any state’s borders in an era when

The First Amendment Coalition along with the California Newspaper Publishers Association and Californians Aware have submitted written comments on a draft of a Rule of Court to grant the public access to administrative court records. -DB CNPA Legislative Bulletin September 16, 2009 CNPA, the First Amendment Coalition and Californians Aware all lodged informal written comments last week on an initial draft of a Rule of Court that would give the public a right of access

Richard Henry Fogel, co-founder of Bay City News Service, died last Wednesday at 86. Fogel was among the founders of FAC in 1988. Ever a free speech advocate, he was a recipient of the James Madison Freedom of Information Career Achievement Award, among others. By Wayne Futak Bay City News 09/10/2009 —- Richard Henry Fogel, co-founder of San Francisco’s Bay City News Service, died Wednesday in Thousand Oaks. He was 86. An advocate on issues