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    FAC Partners with Artists United to Provide Legal Help to Artists Nationwide

    […] Legal Hotline service. The Legal Hotline is a legal consultation service available on FAC’s website. Users submit legal questions using FAC’s online form. The questions are answered by lawyers—all experts in First Amendment and media law—at Bryan Cave, a national law firm. Their answers, delivered by email, cover questions about freedom of speech, freedom-of-information, […]

    October 11, 2017

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    Cases Press Release

    FAC Demands Investigation, Return of Equipment After Photojournalist Arrested

    […] arrest of journalist Jeremy Portje last week. Portje was filming at a homeless encampment in Sausalito on November 30, when he was arrested and his equipment seized by Sausalito police. News articles cover the arrest and seizurehere,here, andhere. The joint letter to Marin County District Attorney Lori Frugoli, Sausalito Mayor Jill Hoffman, and Sausalito […]

    December 8, 2021

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    Blog Cases

    FAC Defends Press Freedom in Marin Photographer’s Case

    […] against Portje, who was booked a month before on suspicion of battery of a police officer and obstructing police work. Second, on Dec. 29, counsel for the government said in court that police had not and would not review the contents of Portje’s gear and would work out an agreement with Portje’s attorney to […]

    January 4, 2022

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    Extracting information from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) takes persistence and understanding one’s rights under FOIA

    […] that works closely with the city’s immigrant community, told CFAC, "We often act as a clearing house of information, by making alliances with the community, lawyers, local government and the press." ICE rarely volunteers specific numbers or names of persons detained in raids. In March , following several high-profile raids in San Rafael’s canal […]

    June 2, 2009

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    Donald Sterling may be a racist, but denial of his rights (to privacy and free speech) devalues those rights for all citizens

    […] private conversations with our spouse, with other family members, and with best friends. Absent a warrant based on probable cause, these conversations are not the business of government or of strangers who would do us harm. Fundamental to the principles of the First Amendment (freedom of speech) and the Fourth Amendment (personal privacy) is […]

    April 30, 2014

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    Does Wikileaks deserve Dan Ellsberg’s approval? The good Wikileaks, yes; the bad Wikileaks, no

    […] good Wikileaks. The bad Wikileaks, not satisfied with front-page stories in the New York Times and the other publications, and despite demands and threats from the US government, proceeded to dump virtually its entire set of 400,000 Iraq War documents on the open internet, where they are being painstakingly mined for information and insights […]

    November 1, 2010

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    Disclosure–or the lack of it–is a major cause of the current financial crisis

    […] value of collateralized securities tied to home mortgages--so that buyers and sellers can resume trading them, even at heavily discounted values. The financial markets are like representative government. Just as democracy requires transparency so that voters can hold elected officials accountable, so the financial system requires transparency so that investors can understand and place […]

    June 3, 2009

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    Did NBC secretly hand over the Trump grope tape to the Wash Post?

    […] the website of the Washington Post. The Post had it first, which is interesting when you consider the tape was stored in NBC archives and was discovered by NBC personnel. And yet the Post beat NBC on the Trump tape story?   Maybe, maybe not. Here’s an alternative theory (and, I stress, it’s just […]

    October 18, 2016

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    FAC News Press Release

    Craigslist founder Craig Newmark joins FAC Advisory Board

    […] focuses his energy and resources on philanthropic endeavors. In 2011 he launched craigconnects as a platform to support organizations involved in work for veterans and military families, open government, public diplomacy, trustworthy journalism, consumer protection, election protection, and voter registration. He also serves on the board of directors of the Poynter Foundation, Center for Public Integrity, […]

    March 1, 2016

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    FAC News Press Release

    Clara Hogan Named as FAC’s Communications and Programs Director

    […] Executive Director David Snyder.  "Her arrival at FAC, in this era of sharp political division and of threats to transparency and free speech at all levels of government, could not come at a more important time." Hogan received her BA in Journalism from the University of Iowa, where she worked as a reporter for […]

    September 13, 2017