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    Financials

    Earning Your Trust The First Amendment Coalition’s accomplishments reflect the support and generosity of our community of donors. We take pride in our financial efficiency, program effectiveness, organizational health, leadership, and stability. We’re efficient: With minimal fundraising and administrative costs, FAC reaches people in every corner of California, directly serving well over 1,000 Californians […]

    July 3, 2024

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act First Amendment

    Written public comment not read as promised before City Council vote taken

    […] public comments to an agenda item because I could not attend a Special Meeting of the City Council. The City Clerk acknowledged that they had been received and would be read into the record during public comment time period for the specific item. This did not happen and the vote was taken on the item. […]

    June 14, 2016

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    CPRA Police Records

    Are CPRA exemptions discretionary?

    […] denying access to any requests? Our local PD allows access after the case is over. Are they negligent for instituting a blanket policy in the other direction and refuse all requests on current cases including: A suspect/arrestee named in a crime report for a pending case may not obtain a copy of the crime […]

    August 21, 2012

  • Latest News

    For Google, Facebook et al, the best defense against NSA surveillance is not legal reform, but technology that forces the agency to come through the “front door”

    […] of information, photos etc. on social media, will not be compromised. Customers believe those assurances. They do so not because they think the tech companies are a new species of corporation, different from traditional businesses in their focus on profits and growth. On the contrary, they trust Google, Facebook et al because, when it […]

    January 7, 2014

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    City council candidates’ website URLs have been excluded from the city website

    Our city is having an election in November for city council members. On the city’s website, they list each c andidate’s name, address, phone number, etc.  When I suggested to the city clerk that the candidate’s website address also be included as a public service, I got a response that: "The City’s responsibility is […]

    October 11, 2011

  • Asked and Answered

    Social Media

    Are Facebook comments protected speech?

    […] for making comments about my employer on Facebook. My page does not note where I work or who I work with. It is viewable only to friends and my Twitter page is accessible only to  those who "follow" me. My comments were vague regarding my wanting to be ethical and honest and that I […]

    June 8, 2012

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    CPRA Newsgathering School Records

    State university won’t disclose student cafeteria workers’ pay

    […] position but not for a specific person or the payroll over a specific period of time. Given your request, I am seeking this rate of pay for the position of COHO student manager." Is this true? It's really not public record? I can't find out how much our Chancellor, for example, was paid last summer?

    June 14, 2014

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    Blog

    Prop 8 Supreme Court hearing is best evidence yet for allowing cameras into the courtroom

    […] in the context of a continuum of legal precedent. While they may have expected to see a partisan foodfight, instead they saw thoughtful and well-informed judges asking questions of the lawyers to test the applicability of general legal principles to the specific facts of this case. It is an exercise that, among other things, […]

    June 3, 2009