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    Brown Act

    Multiple Requests to Pull Item off Consent Agenda Overridden by County Supervisors

    […] here. Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP is general counsel for the First Amendment Coalition and responds to FAC hotline inquiries. In responding to these inquiries, we can give general information regarding open government and speech issues but cannot provide specific legal advice or representation. No attorney-client relationship has been formed by way of this response.

    October 30, 2020

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    Brown Act CPRA

    Redaction of investigative report

    […] regarding harassment by council member. Is not the client entitled to the entire file without redactions? City council members have complained about the heavy redactions. Does the Brown Act require discussion of this type of thing in closed session? I am unsure if anything applies to investigation on council members and investigation started without […]

    August 12, 2014

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    Cases

    Amici Briefs Digest – March 2018

    […] the issue of whether the mere existence of probable cause to arrest an individual defeats that individual’s ability to bring a First Amendment retaliation lawsuit against the government--i.e., a lawsuit alleging that the government retaliated against the individual for exercising free-expression rights protected under the First Amendment.  FAC joined an amicus by the National […]

    March 7, 2018

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    CPRA Police Records

    Can law enforcement seal a search warrant that gathered evidence on a civil case?

    […] your first question -- one would imagine that the Penal Code provision is limited to search warrants in criminal cases. It is not immediately apparent why the government could invoke its police powers in connection with a civil case.Again, however, this issue goes beyond our legal expertise. Next, assuming that Penal Code § 1534 […]

    August 19, 2011

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    First Amendment Protest Rights

    I Believe My University Has Infringed on My Right to Free Speech. How Can I Fight Back?

    […] the past several months I have been a part of a political movement demanding a cost of living adjustment for graduate students. As part of this student action, there have been pickets often consisting of several hundred people daily. I have been fired as a result of my participation in this strike. I am […]

    April 21, 2022

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    Blog

    California AG Xavier Becerra and the Thick Blue Wall of Police Secrecy

    By DAVID SNYDER—California Attorney General Xavier Becerra appears to believe there are two sets of rules about government transparency—one for his office, and another for everyone else. Back in 2017, when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) refused to disclose public records about EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s potential ethical conflicts, Becerra promptly sued under the […]

    March 6, 2019

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    Cases Press Release

    FAC Urges Reversal of Ruling Allowing Secret Government Meetings for Speculative ‘Public Safety’ Concerns

    The First Amendment Coalition (FAC) today filed an amicus brief in a California Court of Appeal case that could have far-reaching consequences for the transparency of government meetings. In the brief, FAC urges the court to find that Metrolink, Southern California’s largest commuter rail system, violated the state’s open-meetings laws when it barred the […]

    May 14, 2018

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    Blog

    A stunning end to the media’s 20-year losing streak in high court access cases.

    Watershed CA Supreme Court decision is major win for government transparency By Peter Scheer America's highest courts are justly criticized for avoiding hard issues. The judicial fetish for deciding cases on the narrowest possible grounds yields opinions so limited and unambitious in scope that they often raise more questions, and generate more legal disputes, […]

    June 3, 2009

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    Brown Act CPRA

    School Superintendent Goals: Public or Private?

    Under the Brown Act, does a school board have the obligation to disclose the goals they set for the district superintendent of schools? Similarly, do they have the obligation to disclose the evaluation criteria for the superintendent of schools? The evaluation criteria for teachers is in the public record, so why not the same […]

    August 14, 2014