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SacBee calls for more transparency in compensation agreements with public employee unions

[…] bargaining process, including negotiations, are open to the public (though government officials may discuss strategy for labor negotiations in closed session). Minnesota, Florida, Kansas and Tennessee are examples. California is at the opposite extreme. The state's Brown Act not only allows negotiations about salaries and benefits to be conducted behind closed doors, it allows […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 2, 2009
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Revisiting Citizens United decision: Not as harmful as feared, and actually provides a 1st Amendment rationale for curbing super PACs

[…] of CU. Super PACs are the political equivalent of hedge funds: professionally managed investment vehicles pooling the contributions of like-minded, high-net-worth individuals to support a candidate. CU opens the door to the legal argument that aggregating contributions from multiple donors into a common pool can never be independent, constitutionally-speaking, of the candidate. Before getting deeper […]

June 1, 2012
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Rating the leading Presidential candidates on First Amendment issues. And the winner is . . .

[…] next few weeks, it's worth considering how the leading contenders compare in their commitment to First Amendment rights. All political leaders are champions of free speech and open-government--in a vacuum. The real question is how they would balance those principles against competing interests in decisions involving issues of national security, economic policy and the […]

June 3, 2009
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Media Coalition Asks Court to Unseal Search Warrant Targeting Protesters Kept Under Seal for Two Years

[…] Nov. 10 granted the motion to unseal but delayed release of the records pending further proceedings. LOS ANGELES —California government watchdog group First Amendment Coalition and independent news organization Knock LA this week are asking a court to unseal a two-year-old search warrant obtained by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department to search the […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
September 19, 2022
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Make no mistake, China’s censorship of the internet is a crime against liberty on a mass scale. Still, American firms can’t just steer clear of the world’s biggest market. What to do?

[…] tortured and hypocritical justifications. It helps for companies to admit their complicity; to clarify that all is not as it should be or appears to be; to openly assert their disagreement with Chinese government policies (if they do, indeed, disagree); and to disclose specifics about how their content has been altered to avoid displeasing […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 3, 2009
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Leading gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown need to show voters, by their own actions, that they are committed to transparency in government. Promises won’t cut it.

[…] not just voyeuristic. In the case of a wealthy candidate like Whitman, the former CEO of eBay, tax returns can be a window on her character, showing, for example: whether she is generous with charitable contributions and who benefits from her giving (her alma mater? people in need?); whether she has been aggressive in the […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
March 9, 2010
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L.A. Sheriff Agrees to Unsealing of Warrant to Search Photojournalist and Black Lives Matter Protesters’ Cell Phones

[…] were demonstrating against the August 2020 killing of cyclist Dijon Kizzee FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact: [email protected] San Rafael, Calif. - On Thursday, the First Amendment Coalition and independent news organization Knock LA prevailed in a legal battle against the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) over the unsealing of search warrant materials, ensuring that the […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
May 23, 2023
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In taping a reporter, AG Brown’s spokesman showed bad judgment, but did he break the law?

[…] readers pointed out in emails to me, I overstated my case in saying that the surreptitious taping of an on-the-record phone conversation between a reporter and a news source is "rarely, if ever illegal." In 2002, in a case that did not involve a journalist, the California Supreme Court, interpreting section 632, held that […]

November 4, 2009
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How to sabotage California’s Public Records Act

[…] at a time of financial crisis in municipal budgets.) In both cases, the trial courts sided with the towns, ruling that the requesters--in the Willows suit, a newspaper editor seeking information for news stories; in the Sebastopol suit, a lawyer requesting evidence for his representation of an injured client--were not entitled to more records […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
October 15, 2012
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Gmail Nation: The Privatization of Public Records and Public Access

[…] SEC. Kwoka found that the information contained in this database closely tracked the company’s FOIA requests. A one-year subscription to the database costs $9,500. Rare is the news outfit that can afford to submit, much less track and follow up on, more than 1,300 requests. Rarer still is the news organization that can assemble, […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
April 25, 2017