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    FAC News Press Release

    Ginny LaRoe Named as FAC’s Programs and Outreach Director

    […] FAC’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. She dealt directly with threats to access, transparency and press freedoms, documenting them in the pages of local newspapers and working behind the scenes to fight […]

    July 29, 2019

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    Cases Press Release

    Former San Jose Mayor Must Show His Text and Email Search Complied with Public Records Law

    […] emails for city business, going as far as directing a constituent to contact him by personal email and saying, "I’m going to delete this email from my government account." The lawsuit challenged the city’s response to requests by San José Spotlight and FAC for messages about city business on Liccardo’s personal accounts or devices. […]

    July 20, 2023

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    Feedback from recent column, “Snowden Go Home”

    […] Not surprisingly, these views triggered some critical comments. Several said that Snowden's actions were the same, morally speaking, as Daniel Ellsberg's leaking of the Pentagon Papers, the classified government history of US involvement in Vietnam, whose publication by the NY Times, the Washington Post and others in 1971 was seen as a first amendment cause […]

    August 15, 2014

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    Press Release

    FAC, SPJ NorCal Announce Efforts to Protect Press Freedom One Year After Raid on Journalist

    […] violation of California’s shield law protections. State and federal law protects journalists from having to disclose their sources or any unpublished information collected during newsgathering to the government — and prohibits judges from issuing warrants for the search and seizure of such information. In the interceding 12 months, many questions remain unanswered, including whether […]

    May 12, 2020

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    Cases Press Release

    FAC Urges California Supreme Court to Require Transparency in Clemency Proceedings

    […] of transparency in all of FAC’s motions that have been resolved.Nevertheless, the governor has continued filing these clemency records under seal. Court records should not be sealed by default. And transparency should not as policy require legal intervention. Instead, FAC’s lawyers wrote in today’s letter to the court, the burden must remain on the […]

    January 13, 2021

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    Blog Cases

    FAC suit against San Diego yields previously secret records on police use of invasive cell phone surveillance tool

    […] tool. The San Diego PD’s model warrant application, disclosed to FAC in the ongoing lawsuit, describes various other phone tracking and surveillance tools available to police and covered by the warrant application. But there is no mention of the Stingray (or IMSI catcher or other names for the cell tracking technology). Obviously, if a […]

    February 2, 2016

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    Cases Press Release

    FAC sues San Diego PD for records on controversial cell phone surveillance technology

    […] SDPD is one of an estimated 40-50 police departments across the country that have purchased the equipment, called International Mobile Subscriber Identity Catchers (IMSI-catchers). SDPD’s device, made by Harris Corp., is known by the brand name "Stingray." The IMSI-catcher technology is controversial because its sophisticated surveillance capabilities, while useful in criminal investigations, can also […]

    December 17, 2014

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    FAC partners with Online News Association to assist digital journalists

    […] to digital journalists so they can overcome the objections of bureaucrats and elected officials who want to withhold information." "Democracy can’t work unless the people know what government is doing," Scheer continued. "Digital journalists are an increasingly important source of that vital news and information about government." To use the Legal Hotline, go here. […]

    May 19, 2016

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    FAC News Press Release

    FAC Names Suzanne Ito as Communications Director

    […] As the Strategic Communications Director at the ACLU of the District of Columbia, Ito worked closely with attorneys and policy staff on several First Amendment and open- government issues, including opposing harmful amendments to D.C.’s Freedom of Information Act before the D.C. Council and lawsuits over police treatment of protesters and a government agency’s […]

    December 9, 2022