Settlement Reached in Free Speech Case at Temecula Valley Unified
FAC
April 16, 2024
People may not be removed from school board meetings without proper cause or warning.
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‘Stop Shooting Her!’: Video of Fatal Shooting of Teen Shows Why Police Transparency Matters
FAC
April 15, 2024
FAC assists journalists to reveal new details about how California deputies killed a teen girl they were tasked with rescuing.
CalMatters boosts transparency giving public and journalists access to state issues
donal brown
April 12, 2024
To fight the lack of transparency in California state government, CalMatters is establishing Digital Democracy: a database with information on state issues; a website to view state agendas and get information about state legislators, their activities, politics, policy interests. campaign finances and personal backgrounds; and a smart AI tool that can search data and provide ideas for journalists. (CalMatters, April 9, 2024, by Sonya Quick) For related FAC coverage, click here.
Journalism professor questions Callifornia Journalism Preservation Act
donal brown
April 11, 2024
Jeff Jarvis in NiemanLab, April 10. 2024, writes that the California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA) is intended to limit fair use and strengthen copyright to support the newspaper industry. Internet platforms like Google and Meta would be forced to negotiate with news publishers and go to arbitration for the right to link to and quote headlines. Google and Meta would be required to pay based on the number of links. Jarvis thinks the CJPA ignores
Berkeley law school dean schools students on First Amendment protest
donal brown
April 11, 2024
The UC Berkeley law school dean Erwin Chemerinsky says that a protest staged at his home during a law student dinner was not within the bounds of First Amendment protection. “No one has the right to come into my house, or yours, and disrupt a dinner,” said Chemerinsky. The Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine mounted the protest. (ABA Journal, April 11, 2024, by Debra Cassens Weiss) In his commentary on the incident, Josh