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    Police Records

    How Can I Access Florida Police Body-Camera Videos?

    Can you please guide me on how to get police body-worn camera videos from a Florida law enforcement agency that have not been provided in response to a freedom of information act. Nor were they included in discovery for a criminal case. I believe there is damning evidence on the video of police misconduct, […]

    June 7, 2021

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    Explainer

    […] any investigatory or security files compiled by any other state or local police agency for correctional, law enforcement, or licensing purposes." Govt. Code § 7923.600(a), formerly § 6254(f). A law enforcement agency’s own investigatory records, such as its reports, notes & findings about alleged crimes, are generally exempt under § 7923.600. Haynie v. Superior Court, […]

    September 5, 2025

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    Blog

    The Bryan Carmody Story In-Depth

    On May 10, 2019, San Francisco police showed up at the home of freelance journalist Bryan Carmody, equipped with a sledgehammer and pickax that they used to try to batter down his front gate. Guns drawn, officers placed Carmody in handcuffs for hours while they raided his home and office, seizing a trove of […]

    September 3, 2019

  • Posts

    Join us in urging the Governor to sign SB 914 to protect privacy and free speech rights

    BY PETER SCHEER--Sitting on Governor Brown's desk right now is SB 914, a First Amendment Coalition-sponsored bill that would restrict warrantless police searches of citizens' cellphones. Won't you please  join our Petition urging the Governor to sign this important safeguard of personal privacy and free speech rights. Why is SB 914 needed? Imagine you […]

    September 21, 2011

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    Advocacy Press Release

    Victory for Transparency: CA Supreme Court Rejects Police Union Effort to Gut Landmark Police Transparency Law

    In a significant victory for government transparency and accountability, the California Supreme Court today denied a police union’s last-minute effort to undermine the effectiveness of a new, landmark police transparency law, rejecting the union’s effort to make the law (SB 1421) apply only to records created after January 1, 2019. The First Amendment Coalition […]

    January 2, 2019

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    Blog

    Trumping Trump: California’s Attack on the First Amendment

    […] of the American people" mantra against the press. First, there was Becerra’s deeply disturbing and only-slightly-veiled threat to prosecute journalists who lawfully received a confidential list of police officers who have been convicted of crimes. When investigative journalists in the Bay Area received the list in January—after requesting it under the California Public Records […]

    May 21, 2019

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    Cases Press Release

    FAC Sues LAPD Over Failure to Release Bodycam Recordings from Protest

    Public Records Act lawsuit by FAC, Knock LA journalists seeks recordings of police breaking up protest outside LA mayor's residence in 2020 The First Amendment Coalition and independent news organization Knock LA today filed a public records lawsuit to bring more transparency to policing in Los Angeles. The lawsuit demands the release of body […]

    July 6, 2022

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    Press Release

    FAC Prevails in Effort to Force CA Attorney General to Disclose Police Misconduct Files

    A San Francisco judge today ordered California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to begin disclosing police-misconduct files sought by the First Amendment Coalition (FAC)—a victory for government transparency against one of the few remaining police agencies in the state to refuse to comply with Senate Bill 1421, California’s new landmark police transparency bill that went […]

    May 17, 2019

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    Blog Cases

    FAC Defends Press Freedom in Marin Photographer’s Case

    A note from Executive Director David Snyder We went to court last week to stand up for press freedom after police arrested Northern California photographer Jeremy Portje and seized his camera gear. By itself, the arrest raised a number of concerns. Portje was reportedly filming police in public at a homeless encampment — activity […]

    January 4, 2022