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    Transparency coming to police one city at a time

    […] doing so they are responding to broad-based public pressure. Polls show voters overwhelmingly support greater transparency for law enforcement---and for access to police videos in particular. Local governments’ responsiveness to public pressure is in sharp contrast to the state Legislature, which favors more secrecy. No fewer than three bills that would raise barriers to […]

    June 24, 2016

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    The attacks in Paris are a clarifying moment for freedom of speech

    […] but also ideas and expression that  are offensive, repugnant, even hateful. That proposition, while obvious in the abstract, is too often disputed in practice. Despite the French government’s post-attack embrace of the magazine, many cartoons in Charlie Hebdo are probably illegal under French laws criminalizing expression that is offensive and insulting on the basis […]

    January 22, 2015

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    Senator Lieberman calls for misguided internet censorship, but the marketplace of ideas demands that free speech flourish.

    […] ideas compete more or less freely with each other. The First Amendment, which is predicated on a belief that the best ideas will win out, commands that government not interfere with this competition – no matter how tempting it may be to silence voices that are truly offensive, like those of terrorists. The technology […]

    June 3, 2009

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    Responses to Peter Scheer’s Commentary on Vallejo’s Bankruptcy

    […] models secret is inexcusable. -Kevin Cummins Encinitas, CA From The Huffington Post: - A suggestion for a different way to fund public employee pensions: instead of the government entity gauranteeing a specific monthly dollar amount in retirement, to be paid out of tax income, have the government entity pay a negotiated amount into a […]

    June 2, 2009

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    Remembering FAC Founding Father and California Journalism Giant, Frank McCulloch

    […] and always made a difference. Some of us had a sense of his iconic status for a long time, going back as far as l967" when McCulloch covered the Vietnam war as "a marvelous reporter". President Johnson was enraged by McCulloch’s Vietnam reporting in l966 that he planned to build up American forces to […]

    May 31, 2018

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    Real outrage is that surveillance of AP reporters’ phone calls was probably legal

    […] the source of AP's leak before resorting to the AP subpoenas --including, for example, obtaining the same metadata for the office, home and cell phones of all government officials who had access to the classified information leaked to AP's reporters. Also, did the Justice Department obtain specific judicial authorization to subpoena the AP's phone […]

    May 20, 2013

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    New 1st amendment case poses existential threat to public employee unions

    […] to bankruptcy to void union contracts. It's not state initiatives to restrict collective bargaining rights or other outpourings of voter resentment. No, the new existential threat facing government unions comes from . . . the First Amendment. In a scarcely-noticed lawsuit filed Monday in federal district court in Los Angeles, a conservative nonprofit, the […]

    May 2, 2013

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    Los Angeles Settles Suit Filed By FAC, Agrees to Retain City Records For At Least Two Years

    […] it must retain city records for at least two years as part of a settlement agreement reached today with the First Amendment Coalition--a victory for transparency and government accountability in the nation’s second-largest city, and an assurance that the public will have the access to city records to which it is entitled under California […]

    September 20, 2017

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    Locy and Risen cases renew debate over protecting journalists’ confidential sources

    […] bioterrorism expert whom federal investigators suspected was behind the anthrax mailings that killed five people. Hatfill, who has never been charged for those crimes, sued the federal government claiming that the Justice Department and FBI, by leaking to the press information about their suspicions of him, violated his rights under the federal Privacy Act. […]

    June 3, 2009