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    Have a legal question on FOI issues? Ask us. FREE!

    […] to previous Hotline users. This feature, called Asked & Answered, is a vital legal resource that you can consult again and again. The Legal Hotline is not new.  We’ve provided the public with answers to access law questions for more than 20 years. But the need today is greater than ever. Financially-strapped news organizations […]

    August 6, 2011

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    Our Work

    Nonpartisan and nonprofit, FAC believes that the broadest range of engaged and informed communities is essential to the health of our democracy – that the values expressed by the First Amendment provide a blueprint for an inclusive, equitable society and a responsive, accountable government. To that end, FAC educates, advocates and litigates to protect […]

    June 11, 2024

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Is all information about public employment tests exempt?

    I would like to examine copies of two recent examinations that I have taken for jobs at BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit). I request my score, value for each question, who wrote the exam, who was the subject matter expert, and who graded the exam. I think the California Public Record Act states that […]

    July 29, 2011

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    FAC News Press Release

    Introducing Our Police Transparency Guide

    The First Amendment Coalition today launched a comprehensive new handbook on accessing public records related to police misconduct and use of force in California. The Police Transparency Guide provides an overview of California’s landmark access laws that make more categories of records available to the public, with the latest information about how courts across […]

    October 6, 2020

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Access to government officials’ email on personal account

    Suppose a public official advises certain persons to communicate with him at home -- either by email or letter -- in order to avoid having to disclose any of those communications as public records under the California Public Records Act? Would those records, in fact, be exempt from the PRA?

    June 8, 2009

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    Cases Press Release

    Statement by FAC’s David Snyder on Newly Unsealed Carmody Search Warrant Materials

    […] that police knew that Carmody is a "stringer," i.e. a freelancer. The affidavit itself even states that Carmody is someone"who makes a career out of producing/selling hot news stories." Taken together, these statements represent a massive failure by both SFPD and the judiciary to recognize and safeguard the Constitutionally protected rights of Bryan Carmody […]

    August 6, 2019

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    Cases Press Release

    FAC Moves to Unseal Search Warrants in Illegal Police Raid on SF Journalist

    […] Coalition (FAC) today filed a motion to unseal the San Francisco Police Department’s applications for two search warrants in the case of journalist Bryan Carmody, whose home and office police raided last week,sparking national outrage from press advocates, civil libertarians and many others. Why two judges authorized those warrants—which appear to be illegal under […]

    May 17, 2019

  • Asked and Answered

    Court Records

    How to Access Copies of New York Police Records Destroyed in Fire?

    I'm a documentary producer researching a 1989 criminal case of Daniel Rakowitz. I requested the case files and court transcript for this trial from the New York State Supreme Court Clerk's Office. At the time that the files were supposed to be delivered, I was informed that the case files and court transcript had been […]

    May 28, 2018

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    2007 FAC Awards: CFAC Names Six Award Winners, One Big Loser

    CFAC Names Six Award Winners, One Big Loser CFAC, San Rafael, CA-- The late Chauncey Bailey, jailed videoblogger Josh Wolf, New America Media executive director Sandy Close, AP reporter Martha Mendoza, and legislators Gloria Romero and Mark Leno are among the recipients of awards given by the California First Amendment Coalition (CFAC) at the […]

    June 3, 2009

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    Remembering FAC Founding Father and California Journalism Giant, Frank McCulloch

    […] an important role in the founding of FAC in 1988. McCulloch was a key editor who helped transition a small Freedom of Information committee, sponsored by the California Newspaper Publishers Association, into an independent organization of journalists, attorneys and FOI/First Amendment experts  who would be serving the general public and not just newspapers. McCulloch attended the […]

    May 31, 2018