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Brown Act violations in closed session real-property negotiations
September 8, 2016
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FAC Announces Advisory Board Members
[…] previously classified documents released to the NSA in 2007. The NSA specializes in the use of FOIA, declassification review, and other legal means to obtain national security records. Erwin Chemerinsky is the founding dean and distinguished professor of law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. An expert in the areas of […]May 4, 2012
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First Amendment Coalition Awarded $500,000 to Bolster Leadership and Build Capacity Infrastructure
[…] for newsrooms and advocacy groups across California, and in particular the Central Valley. In addition, FAC’s strategic litigation program enforced the public’s right of access to government records across the state. FAC has also recently expanded its library of training and educational materials like the definitive Police Transparency Handbook and The Right to Know, […]March 31, 2023
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Snowden, go home
[…] government overreaching, change official policy, and vindicate principles of government transparency and individual privacy. Snowden has portrayed his accessing, copying and distribution (to selected journalists) of NSA records as acts of conscience--and so they may have been. Civil disobedience is a time-honored form of protest, particularly in a democracy. But civil disobedience is not […]July 14, 2014
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City Won’t Add Us to E-mail List
[…] obtain such information – or learn whether it exists – because the agency refuses to communicate with you, you might consider seeking relevant documentation via a Public Records Act request. Bryan Cave LLP is general counsel for the First Amendment Coalition and responds to First Amendment Coalition hotline inquiries. In responding to these inquiries, […]February 8, 2018
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NYT still has the power to alter the facts of the very story on which it is reporting.
[…] on. Take for example an article in the business section of Sunday’s New York Times about commercial websites that publish police mugshots---millions of mugshots obtained as public records from police departments across the country. These websites are in the humiliation business, posting mugshots indiscriminately, with no consideration for whether the pictured individuals have ever […]October 7, 2013
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My High School Took Down My Online Profile Picture. Does this Violate My First Amendment Rights?
August 7, 2020
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FAC Welcomes Legal Fellow Sherene Tagharobi
[…] organization’s ability to promote and defend freedoms of speech and the press, and to enforce the public’s right to know by bringing lawsuits under the California Public Records Act, the federal Freedom of Information Act and other open-government provisions. Tagharobi succeeds veteran First Amendment lawyer Glen Smith as FAC’s second legal fellow, following Smith’s […]July 17, 2020
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More than 100 Organizations and Media Companies Call on Congress to Pass the PRESS Act
[…] PRESS Act, which passed in the House of Representatives on January 18, 2024, would shield reporters from having to disclose information identifying confidential sources as well as records, communications content, documents, or information that the journalist obtained or created as part of their journalism. The bill also bars government demands for that data to […]October 10, 2024
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The public is severely limited in county meeting participation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Is this a Brown Act violation?
[…] . . body . . . that holds a meeting via teleconferencing and allows members of the public to observe and address the meeting telephonically or otherwise electronically…shall have satisfied any requirement that the body allow members of the public to attend the meeting and offer public comment." As such, the county's efforts to […]July 23, 2020