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FAC Urges Court to Block Fresno Ordinance, Citing First Amendment Concerns

The press plays an important role in documenting the government’s treatment of homeless people, FAC's brief says UPDATE May 24, 2022: A federal judge, citing First Amendment problems, granted plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of the ordinance at issue in the case. Read the order. The First Amendment Coalition today filed […]
- Press Freedom
April 12, 2022
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FAC Sues San Diego District Attorney’s Office for Sexual Harassment, Misconduct Records

[…] office’s multiple refusals to turn over the public documents. FAC originally requested these records back in April. The office did not respond in the 10-day window required by law. When it did respond, it failed to release any records. Instead, it provided only brief, tailored summaries of the allegations and actions taken by the […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
July 27, 2018
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FAC sues Palm Springs water agencies for data on water use by corporate customers

The First Amendment Coalition has filed a CPRA suit against two government water agencies in the Palm Springs area to compel them to make public water usage data, by customer name, for each of their biggest corporate customers. The agencies, Coachella Valley Water District and the Desert Water Agency, have published this information in […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
August 16, 2014
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FAC Sues LAPD Over Failure to Release Bodycam Recordings from Protest

[…] About FACThe First Amendment Coalition is a nonprofit public interest organization working across California to advance free speech, a free press and a more open and accountable government. It published the Police Transparency Guide, a free resource to help the press and public access newly available records about police misconduct and use of force. […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
July 6, 2022
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FAC sues LA council over destroyed public records

A new lawsuit filed by the First Amendment Coalition against Los Angeles highlights local governments’ all-too-common---and illegal---practice of destroying public records. The suit, filed Thursday in Superior Court for Los Angeles County, focuses on documents that went missing when a termed-out council member, Tom LaBonge, left office in 2015. Thousands of documents about city […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
August 26, 2016
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FAC Receives Three-Year, $375,000 Grant From Jonathan Logan Family Foundation

[…] our organization in 2014 and has guaranteed his foundation’s support over an extended period of time going forward speaks volumes to the foundation’s commitment to open and accountable government, free speech and aggressive, independent journalism." The Logan grant will provide $125,000 per year in 2018, 2019 and 2020, with $50,000 each year coming in the […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Press Freedom
April 20, 2018
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FAC Honors the Brown Institute’s ‘Documenting COVID-19’ Project as 2020 Award Winner

The First Amendment Coalition today named the Brown Institute for Media Innovation its 2020 Free Speech & Open Government Award recipient for its "Documenting COVID-19" project, which created a massive clearinghouse of public records and produced accountability journalism in partnership with 30 newsrooms. The project set out to examine the decision-making of state and […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
February 9, 2021
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FAC files suit for logs showing who visited LA’s County Assessor in jail

[…] and Gary Bostwick of the firm of Bostwick & Jassy in LA. FAC is a section 501C(3) nonprofit organization focused on issues of freedom of speech, open- government and government accountability. FAC’s other current litigation includes cases challenging sanctions against public records requestors; a FOIA suit for US Justice Department memos on the "targeted […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
March 1, 2013
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FAC and ACLU of Northern California Welcome Mendocino County’s Repeal of Public Records Fee Ordinance

[…] review, or redact documents people asked for under the California Public Records Act. The law, passed last July, received widespread condemnation from the public, journalists, and open government advocates. One local media organization, the Mendocino Voice, has been assessed fees in excess of $76,000 since the law was passed. Mendocino was not the only […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
May 9, 2023
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Equal Justice Society Criticizes CFAC Suit against State Bar for records on affirmative action.

[…] Privacy Act (FERPA) governs the privacy and disclosure of educational records. Under FERPA, anonymized educational records are routinely made public, by education institutions and by the federal government itself. Every case we have found addressing a request such as that made by CFAC held that disclosure was required, and does not violate FERPA. Notably, […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 3, 2009