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    Advocacy Blog

    Pricing the Public Out of Public Records 

    […] To locate and identify records related to a marijuana eradication program, Mendocino County staff estimated it would take 2,139 hours, costing $67,145. For records revealing details of government workers’ use of the disappearing messaging app Signal, it would take an estimated 534 hours, costing almost $16,900. And just to get the county working on […]

    May 11, 2023

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    FAC News

    Now Hiring: Development Director

    […] accelerate FAC’s successful fundraising work, which has fueled an expansion of our budget, our staff and, most importantly, our impact in advancing press freedoms, free expression and government transparency.  Nonpartisan and nonprofit, FAC believes that the broadest range of engaged and informed communities is essential to the health of our democracy – that the […]

    August 25, 2022

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    FAC News

    Now Hiring: Communications Director or Manager

    […] closed The First Amendment Coalition (FAC) seeks an experienced communications professional to raise awareness about the organization’s mission to advance and protect press freedoms, free expression and government transparency. The communications director/manager will set communications strategy and priorities, and execute daily tasks to elevate FAC programs and inform news coverage of open-government and First […]

    August 25, 2022

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    Blog Cases

    New “drone memo” to be released to FAC . . . and other developments in FAC’s legal cases

    The US Justice Department has advised FAC that it plans to release a second redacted memo analyzing the legality of the government’s proposed use of force to kill al-Aulaqi, a US citizen who had joined Al Qaeda and taken on operational functions for Al-Qaeda’s  operations in Yemen. Al-Aulaqi was subsequently killed in a 2010 […]

    July 11, 2014

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    Blog FAC News

    Last Call: 2021 Free Speech and Open Government Award Nominations Due

    Nominations are due Friday, Jan. 14 for the First Amendment Coalition’s Free Speech & Open Government Award, given each year to recognize significant achievement in advancing freedom of information and expression.  The award recognizes outstanding accomplishment, service or other contributions to the advancement of free expression or the people’s right to know about their government. […]

    November 11, 2021

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    IRS censorship of nonprofits must give way to the First Amendment

    […] under the First Amendment---particularly when applied to pure speech about political matters---the nonprofit community, in general, takes it in stride. One hears few complaints by nonprofits about government censorship of their political speech.  But there is one segment of the nonprofit world to which application of the IRS rules is, or should be, totally […]

    July 28, 2016

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    Advocacy Blog Cases

    Four Open-Government Battles We Are Fighting and Why They Matter

    Even from the perspective of the happy warriors here at FAC, it hasn’t been the best year for First Amendment rights and government transparency. In some ways, 2019 plumbed new lows, with governments at all levels continuing their assault on press freedoms, free speech, and government transparency. But we’re not letting the curtains come […]

    December 19, 2019

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    Blog Cases

    Federal Judge rules in FAC case: US can keep secret a legal memo on drone strikes targeting US citizen

    […] that were not properly classified could nonetheless be withheld on grounds of attorney-client privilege. "We continue to believe the public has a right to know, in detail, the  government's legal justification for  tracking down a terrorist suspect, who is also a US citizen, and killing him," said Peter Scheer, FAC's executive director. "We're not saying the government can't […]

    April 15, 2014

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    Blog Cases

    Federal Judge declines US request to freeze FAC’s FOIA suit for targeted killing memo

    The US Justice Department has failed in its effort to derail the First Amendment Coalition's FOIA suit for access to a government legal memo on the lethal targeting of US citizens engaged in terrorism against US interests. US District Judge Claudia Wilken on Tuesday denied the Justice Department's request to stay proceedings in the […]

    July 24, 2012