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    About Us

    […] the diversity of California and the nation, especially those traditionally excluded from power and resources. Fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive community is both a goal in itself and an integral part of carrying out our organizational mission. Read more about this in the summary of our 2021-2026 Strategic Plan. Read our latest Impact Report.

    June 12, 2024

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    Press Release

    FAC, SPJ NorCal Announce Efforts to Protect Press Freedom One Year After Raid on Journalist

    […] and a plain violation of Californiaโ€™s shield law protections. State and federal law protects journalists from having to disclose their sources or any unpublished information collected during newsgathering to the government โ€” and prohibits judges from issuing warrants for the search and seizure of such information. In the interceding 12 months, many questions remain […]

    May 12, 2020

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    First Amendment

    Can teacher lose job if student-survey questions school board policy?

    My questions are as follows: 1. If a teacher assigns students the task of survey development and distribution along with data collection and analysis, what free-speech guidelines should the students follow? What free speech guidelines should the teacher follow since the students are conducting the survey as an assignment for their class? I ask […]

    June 5, 2010

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    FAC News Press Release

    MuckRock, The New York Times, Bloomberg, and the North Coast Journal Honored with FACโ€™s Free Speech and Open Government Award

    […] to announce the winners of its 2023 Free Speech and Open Government Award: Thadeus Greenson of the North Coast Journal; Al-Amyn Sumar and David McCabe of The New York Times and Leah Nylen of Bloomberg; and nonprofit, collaborative news platform MuckRock. Following a single tip, Thadeus Greenson of the North Coast Journal obtained, through […]

    February 26, 2024

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    FAC News Press Release

    FAC Honors 2021 Free Speech & Open Government Award Winners

    […] and the perils of secrecy. The winners, equally deserving of public honor and emulation, are: Matt Drange, journalist, for advancing freedom of expression by exposing, with sobering new detail and dimension, how a culture of secrecy in Silicon Valley chilled the speech of an untold number of workers. His groundbreaking investigative journalism project in […]

    February 9, 2022

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    How Trumpโ€™s War on Free Speech Threatens the Republic

    By David Snyder, Executive Director On May 17, while delivering a graduation speech to cadets at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut, a scandal-plagued President Donald Trump took the opportunity to complain, yet again, about the news media. No leader in history, he said, has been treated as unfairly as he has […]

    June 6, 2017

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    Blog Events

    It’s Sunshine Week. Here’s how to get involved.

    […] a more open and accountable government, with a focus on the unique challenges posed by the pandemic. For Sunshine Week 2021, we are teaming up with the News Leaders Association to take you inside the fight for public information amid the pandemic. We're keeping the conversation going the following week, with a special event […]

    March 15, 2021

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    Cases Press Release

    Foreign media at Olympics urged to press home governments to demand China lift internet censorship

    (CFAC, 8/1/08) A free speech organization leading a legal challenge to China's internet-censorship has called on news media covering the Olympics to demand that China tear down "The Great Firewall"--the elaborate system of filters blocking access to online content deemed objectionable by government censors. The California First Amendment Coalition, which has petitioned the US […]

    June 3, 2009

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    Blog

    Digital strip-search: Case of lost iPhone prototype shows the danger of using search warrant to seize journalists’ information

    […] reporters who have confidential sources. In this sense the Apple iPhone case is not about Jason Chen and Gizmodo. Their ethical and legal calculations about paying a news source, or the importance of their "scoop" (relative to the harm to Apple's business), are beside the point. The iPhone investigators' use of a search warrant […]

    April 30, 2010

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    Blog

    Newspapers are not dead yet.

    Newspapers are not dead yet. But their hoped-for rebirth as Internet ventures requires a new strategy to create value in their journalism. Proposal: Papers should agree to 24-hour delay in release of their content, free, on web. By Peter Scheer Reports of the imminent death of newspapers--which lately have become a staple in […]

    June 2, 2009