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  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act First Amendment

    Board retailiating against former colleague who called them on Brown Act violations

    […] been a hangar tenant at the same airport. In 2008 I decided to not run for another term and became a spectator. What I observed with the new Board was an immediate termination of the GM and hiring of a new GM with no public sector experience. Since his employment, I caught and exposed […]

    August 21, 2011

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    Brown Act

    Teacher terminated after closed session

    Last weekend our son's 4th grade teacher was fired from her "at will" employment at a local charter school. The board held a Regular Meeting and decided "immediate action" had to be taken. The teacher did not receive 24 hours notice about the meeting but was asked if she wanted to speak for five […]

    October 20, 2011

  • Latest News

    California Reporting Project Wins 2019 FAC Award for Police Accountability Coverage

    […] & Open Government Award, given in recognition of the project’s groundbreaking statewide campaign to bring to light records of police misconduct.The project, an unprecedented collaboration of competing newsrooms, started as a cooperative effort between the Bay Area News Group/Southern California News Group, Capital Public Radio, Investigative Studios (of UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program), KPCC/LAist, […]

    December 2, 2019

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    Court Records CPRA Police Records

    Denied access to supervision records of high-risk parolee

    Message I'm trying to obtain records of supervision for a high-risk parolee who is accused of murder. I sent a public records request and received a rejection letter that cites dozens of government codes in its defense. But I wonder if there's a way to fight that rejection. After all, that information has become […]

    November 30, 2011

  • Latest News

    FAC News Press Release

    First Amendment Coalition Welcomes Veteran Journalist and Publisher Kat Rowlands as Board President

    Contact: fac@firstamendmentcoalition.org Katherine Ann Rowlands, a veteran journalist who runs the regional newswire Bay City News, is the new president of the board of directors of the First Amendment Coalition. "Kat’s vast experience as a journalist and publisher and her work to strengthen local news is driven by her passion to make news and […]

    February 6, 2023

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA FOIA

    Construction inspectors’ addresses omitted from CPRA response

    […] of crane construction inspectors.  Cal OSHA (Occupational Safety & Health Administration) responded to my CPRA request with a partial list of crane inspectors, with their addresses. I dem anded the rest of the list and they gave me an alleged complete list without the requested addresses. They said the addresses were exempt as personal info. Is this […]

    July 18, 2013

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act First Amendment

    Bundling agenda action items silences public input

    I would like to question the legality of a new practice our school board school board to "bundle"  regular action items on the agenda. At the only regular board meeting of August 2010, after approving the consent calendar, the board approved the regular agenda items as presented. Their own by-laws state an agenda item […]

    September 17, 2010

  • Latest News

    FAC News Press Release

    Clara Hogan Named as FAC’s Communications and Programs Director

    […] with substantial experience in the nonprofit sector, as FAC’s Communications and Programs Director. After starting her career in journalism as the managing editor of the 50,000-circulation student newspaper of the University of Iowa, and serving as a journalism intern for Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Hogan served as a media strategist at […]

    September 13, 2017