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  • Latest News

    Events Press Release

    FAC Expands Subpoena Defense Training to Serve More Journalists

    The First Amendment Coalition is expanding its Subpoena Defense Initiative, adding free legal seminars in New York and Washington, D.C., to deepen the bench of qualified lawyers able to step up when journalists face threats to press freedom. With generous assistance from First Look Media’s Press Freedom Defense Fund, FAC’s Subpoena Defense Initiative makes […]

    October 3, 2019

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    Brown Act

    Is public college “executive board” subject to Brown Act?

    […] The overall consensus of the Executive Board is that the meeting should be open to the public. (This issue was brought up because members of the student newspaper were asked to leave one of executive board meeting a few weeks ago.) Since then we've met with the academic senate president to discuss the meeting […]

    May 22, 2013

  • Latest News

    FAC News Press Release

    Journalists Thomas Peele & Caroline Titus named 2016 FAC Award Winners

    […] recipients of the organization's 2016 Free Speech & Open Government Award. Out of more than two dozen nominees, two contestants will be honored, one representing a mainstream news organization, and the other representing small-scale community journalism. What they share is their diligence in pursuit of access to public records in order to report stories that advance […]

    November 29, 2016

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    Brown Act First Amendment

    Does the Brown Act Offer Recourse for Activists Barred from City Council Meeting?

    […] no more seats. We knew they were lying and we have a police office on video lying to us as we knew there were plenty of seats open. I filed a complaint and the police department "investigated" and determined that the officer did nothing wrong. Some of us eventually made it in, including myself, […]

    February 12, 2018

  • Latest News

    FAC News Press Release

    Leading Constitutional Law Scholar Erwin Chemerinsky Joins FAC Board

    […] Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable" and "Free Speech on Campus." He is the author of more than 200 law review articles and is a frequent contributor to newspapers, legal publications and journals. He maintains a law practice, frequently arguing appellate cases. Before his appointment at Berkeley, he was the founding dean of the UC […]

    May 7, 2020

  • Latest News

    FAC News Press Release

    FAC Welcomes David Loy as Legal Director

    […] deep experience, keen legal mind and passion for the First Amendment make him ideally suited to oversee FAC’s growing legal work—and to expand that work to meet new threats," said FAC Executive Director David Snyder. "We could not ask for a  colleague better prepared to lead FAC’s strategic litigation program into the future. We […]

    February 16, 2022

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Criteria for Serial Meeting

    Our former Mayor was involved in trying to develop a clandestine consensus to support his successor. Two councilmembers have said that the Mayor spoke about his support of his replacement, including the replacement himself, outside of a public meeting. We suspect a third, who often sides with the Mayor, was also consulted about who […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Blog Cases

    The ongoing push for police transparency 

    […] laws don’t enforce themselves. Throughout California, law enforcement agencies have continued to wage a campaign of obstruction and resistance by unjustifiably rejecting requests for records under the new laws. These laws don’t enforce themselves. Throughout California, law enforcement agencies have continued to wage a campaign of obstruction and resistance by unjustifiably rejecting requests for […]

    May 18, 2022

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    Brown Act

    City Council disbursed funds without allowing comment by groups they shortchanged

    […] to fairly distribute funds to all domestic violence shelters in L.A.  Members decided to give the majority of the funds to just two of the thirteen shelters and wouldn't take comments from the 11 shelters that were shortchanged. Our agency in fact serves more people than the two receiving the most funding. How is […]

    February 15, 2012