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  • Latest News

    The Rowan County KY Clerk has no “right” to refuse marriage licenses to gay couples

    […] other factor, including gender. Her job, in other words, is to take the license fee and stamp the documents, just like a DMV employee renewing an auto registration. She is free to disagree with the now-settled law of the land regarding same-sex marriage. She can give speeches, pen Op-Eds, sermonize and blog to her […]

    September 3, 2015

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    First Amendment Police Records

    I couldn’t video tape my own arrest, but a reality show was allowed

    […] insisted I could film a public proceeding such as my own arrest, the "warden" brutalized my hand until I had to let go of the camera. My questions are: 1. am I not allowed to film my own arrest if I am not bothering any other aspect of the arrest? and 2. Does not […]

    September 4, 2011

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    CPRA

    Can I appeal a records request denial from State Medical Board?

    I made a request to the California Medical Board for licensing application information. The Medical Board denied my request and offered no avenues for appeal. By my reading of relevant case law, and admittedly I am not a lawyer, this information is clearly not exempt from the Public Records Act. Are there avenues for […]

    August 22, 2011

  • Latest News

    Q&A: FAC Legal Director David Loy on the right to honk your horn as a form of expression

    […] demonstration. While the citation was dismissed when deputies failed to show in court, Porter argues her speech has been chilled by the threat of continued enforcement. FAC’s newest team member, Legal Director David Loy, brought the case on behalf of Porter while he worked at the ACLU, and he continues to represent Porter in […]

    February 16, 2022

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    First Amendment Protest Rights

    Can private shopping malls restrict my right to protest?

    […] whether there is a right to access the recruiting office which transcends the right of the private shopping mall operators to remove us or have us arrested for "trespassing" in their mall.  We are not planning any action which would interfere with Mall customers or with the actual operation of the recruiting office, but […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Brown Act

    Must An Agency Provide Translation Services for Board Members Who Need Them?

    We work with a number of local water boards. Community Service Districts and Public Utility Districts. which are required to comply with the Brown Act. The boards we work with are typically in disadvantaged communities, where Spanish is the language of a large number of residents (if not the majority). I have been trying […]

    December 14, 2020

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    Blog

    A stunning end to the media’s 20-year losing streak in high court access cases.

    […] IFPTE, Local 21 v. Superior Court, that affirms the vital link between public access to information and democratic self-government. In the IFPTE case the Contra Costa Times newspaper had requested records showing the salaries, by name, of all Oakland public employees making more than $100,000 a year. Although the city of Oakland had released […]

    June 3, 2009

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    First Amendment Newsgathering

    Anonymous Columnists

    Does anything in the law compel a newspaper to divulge the identify of a columnist who prefers to remain anonymous? Are Realtors, or persons engaged in the Real Estate business restricted in the opinions they may express about real estate?

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA Police Records

    Can I access history of code violations using the CPRA?

    I filed a code violation complaint in 2005 because of hoarding and abandoned vehicles on a neighbor's easement.  Many things have transpired since but I cannot get an answer to why the County did not simply warn the owner; clean up and bill him as muni. code states & as building inspector has told […]

    June 4, 2013