First Amendment Coalition v. Bonta
FAC
December 12, 2023
On February 14, 2019, represented by Michael Risher, the First Amendment Coalition sued the California Attorney General for violating Senate Bill 1421 (“SB 1421”), California’s landmark police transparency law that mandated disclosure of records about police shootings, significant uses of force, and serious forms of misconduct. FAC took legal action because the Attorney General’s office had refused to disclose records otherwise covered by SB 1421 simply because they were created by another agency, such as