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  • Latest News

    FAC News Press Release

    Ginny LaRoe Named as FACโ€™s Programs and Outreach Director

    The First Amendment Coalition is pleased to announce the appointment of Ginny LaRoe, a veteran reporter and editor with substantial experience in legal affairs news, as FACโ€™s Programs and Outreach Director. LaRoe spent more than a decade on staff at newspapers in five states, primarily focused on the criminal justice system and local government. […]

    July 29, 2019

  • Asked and Answered

    First Amendment

    Seeking Information On Probation Compliance Of Parolee Who Committed Murder

    I am working on a story about a man who was released from the local jail on probation and a month later is the suspect in a murder-suicide. I have obtained a copy of his pre-sentencing probation report, which labels him as a high risk to reoffend and notes that post-release monitoring would be […]

    December 11, 2018

  • Asked and Answered

    Newsgathering

    Can police videotape me in my home without consent?

    Can the police videotape interactions with the public without the public's consent? Not just in public, where there may be less of an expectation of privacy, but when they enter an apartment or home (permissive entry), and they do not ask permission to videotape but do so anyway with hidden video cameras?

    December 2, 2011

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Public comment limited to three items on Water Quality Board agenda

    A draft National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit was submitted for comments. A final permit ignored most comments, but made three small changes. The first and only public hearing is coming up , but the agenda states that oral comments will be limited to the three changes. Thus, no important points can be […]

    April 14, 2010

  • Posts

    Press Rights

    FAC Supports CA Senate Bill 629 to Protect Members of the Press During Protests

    The First Amendment Coalition supports a California bill that would help ensure members of the news media covering protests are protected from physical assault, arrest, or obstruction of their news gathering activities by law enforcement agencies. FAC, together with the California News Publisherโ€™s Association, California Black Media, Ethnic Media Services and ImpreMedia, submitted a […]

    June 26, 2020

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA Newsgathering Police Records

    Accessing reports on police officer involved shooting

    […] there are ton of issues involved here, but I keep running into walls finding documents because of the Peace Officer's Bill of Rights here in Calif.ย  I wondered if you could give me a call for a few minutes and chat about some background and what information I may or may not be entitled to.

    April 16, 2013

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Can criminal background checks on county candidates be kept confidential?

    The County Board of Supervisors announced it will conduct a criminal and financial background check on the individual it selects to fill an open elected position for the clerk-recorder/registrar of voters. The county manager and county counsel say the results of these checks will not be public documents pursuant to the penal code which […]

    May 1, 2013

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    Does City Council’s Rule Against Holding Up Signs At Meetings Violate the First Amendment?

    […] mayor told people not to talk or to take their conversations outside. If residents in the audience even whisper to one another, a police officer walks over and tells them to stop talking or leave. Recently a resident wrote to the city attorney that this violated the First Amendment rights.ย  The city attorney sent […]

    January 20, 2021

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    School Board Meetings without Notice

    As apparent and voter, I am concerned that my school board is holding meetings in violation of the Brown Act. Our district is in contract negotiations with the teachers' union. The following message appears on the school district website: "When meetings are called regarding negotiations, based on the provisions in California Government Code Section […]

    March 18, 2010