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Journalist Sues City of Fresno for Withholding Public Records About Taser Use that Caused Severe Burns

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 21, 2023 Contact: [email protected] SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — Brian Howey, an Oakland-based investigative journalist, has sued the City of Fresno under the California Public Records Act (CPRA) for the city’s refusal to release use-of-force records regarding the death of Michael Sanders, who was tased multiple times by Fresno police officers […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
April 21, 2023
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FAC Receives $30K Grant from Central Valley Foundation — and $10K Matching Opportunity

[…] for speech and press freedoms, public access to government records and meetings, and civic engagement." FAC’s recent groundbreaking work includes itsefforts in defense of freelance journalist Bryan Carmody, who was raided by San Francisco police in violation of California’s journalist shield law.FAC alsospearheaded a legal battle to enforce California Senate Bill 1421, the state’s […]

September 12, 2019
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Can compensation to a retired gov. official be public record?

[…] the public is entitled to know who the employee is, the amount awarded and even the reasons for the award.And in an unpublished opinion letter (Letter to Brian Hill from Deputy Attorney General Lisa Lewis Dubois (1988)), the attorney general concluded that the exact compensation (not simply the pay range) of each employee is […]

June 14, 2009
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Bryan Carmody, Independent Journalist

July 2, 2024