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School District dictatorial about student use of social media, texting
June 15, 2015
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Despite the complaints of blogger-critics, new federal shield bill is last best chance for meaningful protection of reporters’ confidential sources.
[…] nothing to do with the journalism culture wars and everything to do with Congress' intense distaste for any entity, new media or old, that dumps unredacted classified records by the truckload on the open internet. The political reality is that Congress will never pass a bill that protects Wikileaks. That's a given. In any […]September 17, 2013
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Khrystan Policarpio Joins FAC as Legal Fellow
[…] gained excellent experience inside and outside the classroom that make her a great asset to the organization." Policarpio's work at FAC focuses on expanding access to public records and government meetings, and defending freedom of speech and freedom of the press. In addition to assisting FAC attorneys with litigating cases in court, Policarpio participates […]October 18, 2022
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Public right to to speak denied at school board meetings
November 2, 2010
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First Amendment panel finds promise, pitfalls in social media
November 3, 2009
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AP Sunlight Freedom of Information Awards Announced
[…] the 2008 Sunlight Freedom of Information Award. The Sunlight award is given to the two stories in the California-Nevada region that best exemplify the use of public records in an effort to effectively shed light on issues of civic importance. The award is judged and co-sponsored by CFAC and is given in association with […]June 2, 2009
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What meetings are governed by CA Proposition 54?
June 6, 2017
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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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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