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Sunshine in the Valley
[…] participated in the sessions. FAC press education specialists Paloma Esquivel and Thadeus Greenson led sessions on records-based reporting, immigration enforcement coverage and using public records to document police use of force and misconduct. FAC education specialists Paloma Esquivel and Thadeus Greenson started the day with a session on how to incorporate records-based reporting into […]November 20, 2025
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Press advocates condemn Oakland Police Department’s press policy
FAC, the Pacific Media Workers NewsGuild-CWA Local 39521 and the Society of Professional Journalists of Northern California today condemned the Oakland Police Department’s exclusion of journalists from a news conference and urged the city to end a policy that requires press to have a police department-issued press pass to attend news conferences. "This policy […]November 14, 2025
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Court Rules LAPD Likely Violated Journalists’ Rights
[…] the Los Angeles Press Club (LAPC) and investigative reporting network Status Coup in their lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles for violating journalists’ rights. Los Angeles Police Department officers removed journalists from the area around immigration enforcement protests and shot them with "less-lethal munitions," preventing them from documenting the protests and the LAPD’s […]September 11, 2025
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Howey v. City of Fresno
FAC represented Brian Howey, an investigative journalist who was denied police use-of-force records while researching a story about police misconduct. CLOSEDJune 16, 2023
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FAC Urges Court to Reject Attorney’s Attempt to Censor Vallejo News Site
On January 25, the Vallejo Sun published "Vallejo officer fired for Willie McCoy shooting had history of complaints before joining Vallejo police," a story that details former Vallejo police officer Ryan McMahon's history of misconduct complaints at other police departments before joining the Vallejo Police Department in 2017. McMahon is currently in arbitration to […]January 27, 2024
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Brown vetoes bill limiting cellphone searches by police
Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed SB 914, a bill sponsored by the First Amendment Coalition that would have required police to get a warrant before searching through the smart phones and other electronic devices of people they arrest. The bill would have overridden a recent California Supreme Court decision allowing warrantless searches of cellphones. […]October 11, 2011
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Super Bowl Score: Cop Overtime $6.3 Million, Taxpayers 0
[…] over $6.3 million in overtime. Comparable figures in 2015 were less than $1 million in each two-week pay period. The records also show that the San Francisco Police Department didn’t even budget for the Super Bowl-related costs. Neither did the Municipal Transportation Agency, whose personnel rang up over $2.7 million in overtime during the […]April 14, 2016
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Free Speech And A Free Press Were Under Attack in 2019. But You Made A Difference.
A letter from the executive director 2019 was a year of grave threats to First Amendment rights. In San Francisco, police raided the home and office of a freelance journalist, Bryan Carmody, seizing his entire newsroom. In Washington, D.C., the Department of Justice blocked efforts to shed light on their seizure of phone and […]November 18, 2019
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Amicus Briefs Digest, Sept. 2017
[…] of access to civil complaints that attaches upon filing, and that a news media organization's for-profit status is irrelevant to the First Amendment right of access. Pasadena Police Officers Ass’n v. Los Angeles Times: FAC joined this amicus brief, authored by CNPA and Reporters Committee, which argues that so-called "reverse-CPRA" actions are contrary to […]September 27, 2017