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    Our Work

    […] of engaged and informed communities is essential to the health of our democracy – that the values expressed by the First Amendment provide a blueprint for an inclusive, equitable society and a responsive, accountable government. To that end, FAC educates, advocates and litigates to protect and promote government transparency and First Amendment protections for all.

    June 11, 2024

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    AG Holder, in speech, describes al-Awlaki “lethal targeting” memo that is the subject of recent FAC suit

    […] Manhattan) and the ACLU (in federal court in Washington, DC). FAC's suit is pending in federal district court in San Franciosco. In all three cases the federal government takes the position that it needn't respond to the FOIA claims on the merits because the very existence (or nonexistence) of the al-Awlaki memo is classified. […]

    March 16, 2012

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    Brown Act

    Are Community Action Agencies Subject to the Brown Act?

    You would think that Community Action Agencies (nonprofit 501c3) would be subject to the Brown Act since they were created under the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, are required to have one-third of their board made up of elected officials, and receive huge amounts of federal and state tax payer monies, etc. But a […]

    October 30, 2020

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    CPRA

    How to requests public documents from San Francisco Airport

    I've been having a really hard time understanding how to send a freedom of information act requests to the San Francisco Airport. A web search gave me nothing, except for something about a "Sunshine Ordinance" though I can see that California has a Freedom of Information law in place. Can you help me understand […]

    May 11, 2018

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    CPRA

    When government outsources program are documents public?

    […] by going to the website of their red light camera vendor, selecting the report from an on-screen menu of report types, then selecting the intersection to be covered by the report, and entering the beginning and ending dates of the period of interest (the "parameters"). The database program prepares the report immediately. I have […]

    October 10, 2011

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    Government officials should listen to voters instead of lawyers selling strategies for blocking access to information

    Regardless of what they say to the contrary, government agencies are in the business of withholding information from the public (or, what amounts to the same thing, disclosing only that information that the agencies want the public to have). This tight-fistedness about information is written into government's DNA. But some efforts to withhold information […]

    March 24, 2014

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    Ballot measure to subdivide CA assumes smaller government is closer to voters. But it’s also closer to special interests.

    […] the political arena is a ballot initiative to subdivide California into six states of roughly equal size. This proposal faces serious hurdles, not least that the federal government would say no, even if California voters, against all odds, endorsed Draper's mini-Californias idea. By raising the state's US senator count from two to twelve, Draper's […]

    February 26, 2014

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    Brown Act

    Brown Act violations in closed session real-property negotiations

    […] a real property negotiation in closed session without meeting the requirement to disclose the party being negotiated with. This has occurred three times before, and was recorded by me on June 1. I want to delay the sale of the properties being negotiated. I need to know how to use the "Cure and Correct" […]

    September 8, 2016

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    Brown Act First Amendment

    Taping of public charter school meetings curtailed by corporate owners

    […] and asked that this item be placed on the next agenda and what law was the CEO referring to that he can enact these restrictions along with the public entities that does this. Our local public non charter school district records, televises and plays their meetings on local TV multiple times in the month. We need […]

    October 13, 2014