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    FAC News

    Now Hiring: FAC Senior Staff Attorney / Legal Director

    […] papers and testimony. Qualifications:   The Senior Staff Attorney/Legal Director must:  (1) have a law degree and California bar membership or the willingness to take the California bar exam within their first year at FAC;  (2) have at least five years of experience litigating in state and/or federal court, including cases brought under the California […]

    October 14, 2021

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    Cases

    AP, Bloomberg, CNET, Wired.com, LA Times, CNPA join FAC motion in lost-iPhone case

    FAC--The First Amendment Coalition and major news media have requested the California Court presiding over the Gizmodo/missing iPhone matter to unseal judicial records relating to the warrant issued for the search of an online journalist's home and the seizure of his computer, hard drives and other digital files. The motion to unseal the warrant […]

    May 6, 2010

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    Blog FAC News

    Las Vegas Sun series on construction deaths wins CFAC Sunlight award

    […] workers at a huge casino construction site on the Las Vegas strip. The Sunlight Award, given jointly by CFAC and the Associated Press, recognizes journalistic excellence in news coverage that uses government records obtained through the assertion of freedom of information rights. Berzon’s 2008 articles for the Sun exposed the high death rate among […]

    June 3, 2009

  • Posts

    Join us in urging the Governor to sign SB 914 to protect privacy and free speech rights

    […] (what lawyers refer to as "exigent circumstances"). SB 914, introduced by Senator Leno (D-San Francisco), is not a "liberal" bill or a "conservative" bill. Sponsored by California Newspaper Publishers' Association and the ACLU--in addition to the First Amendment Coalition--SB 914 was enacted with bipartisan majorities in both the Assembly and Senate, no small feat […]

    September 21, 2011

  • Latest News

    Blog FAC News

    FAC Seeks Nominations for 2017 Free Speech & Open Government Award

    […] the award are outstanding accomplishment, service or other contributions to "the people’s right to know" about government. The winner, or winners, could be a journalist, blogger, lawyer, news organization (print or digital), software developer or community activist. We wish to recognize an individual or institution whose actions deserve public honor and emulation for their […]

    September 7, 2017

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    Blog

    Recent court decisions transform legal tools for protecting free speech into an instrument for the suppression of the public’s speech and access rights

    […] even attend the closed session.) In these cases, individual public servants had the courage to assert that the entities they served had violated the First Amendment, California’s open meeting laws, and the California Public Records Act (California’s version of the Freedom of Information Act). The government and the courts soon saw to it that […]

    June 3, 2009

  • Latest News

    Blog

    Obfuscating Mercy: How the California Supreme Court Finally Addressed Secretive Pardons

    […] First Amendment Coalition The California Supreme Court recently announced a rule change to make it easier for the public to view clemency files for twice-convicted felons. The new rule rejects the governor’s decades-old practice of automatically sealing clemency files, but places the onus on the public to move for unsealing "The public now has […]

    September 17, 2021

  • Asked and Answered

    FOIA Social Media

    Advice on How to Request An Agency’s “Unlisted” YouTube Videos

    I recently discovered that it is a common practice among many agencies to publish videos on YouTube and to set their privacy to "Unlisted." Unlisted videos do not show up in searches and do not show up in the YouTube account-holder's public video list, but they are accessible to anyone who has the video's […]

    April 6, 2018

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Minutes of City Council meetings don’t tell whole story

    A group of citizens allege the city is wrongly leaving out copies of correspondence the city received related to items on its agenda and powerpoint presentations related to agenda items. The council offers a limited number of copies of this information at the city clerk’s desk on the night of the meeting but it […]

    March 7, 2014

  • Latest News

    FAC News Press Release

    David Snyder, Journalist and First Amendment Lawyer, Named to Head FAC

    David Snyder, a lawyer and journalist who has worked at the highest levels of both professions, has been selected as the new Executive Director of the First Amendment Coalition. He takes over leadership of the free speech and open-government organization on January 1. Snyder is an attorney in the San Francisco office of Sheppard […]

    November 18, 2016