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FAC Calls on Governor to Sign Bill Strengthening Press Protections at Protests

[…] editorial) Sign legislation protecting reporters who cover protests(Mercury News editorial) Journalism is not a crime. Gov. Newsom must sign a bill protecting reporters(Sacramento Bee commentary) SB 16: Police Transparency This bill also deserves the governor's signature. SB 16 would expand on 2019's landmark police transparency law, SB 1421, which made certain categories of police […]
September 30, 2021
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Legislature approves FAC-sponsored bill on cell phone privacy. Will Brown sign it?

[…] Senate yesterday approved the bill, which was introduced by Senator Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), by a bipartisan 31-4 vote. It was approved by the Assembly in August. Police ordinarily have authority, following an arrest, to conduct a search--without a warrant--of the person arrested and materials and containers in his possession--for example, a wallet, any […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
September 2, 2011
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The Threat to Free Speech is Real. But It Isn’t Coming From Where You Might Think.

[…] demanded that the administration silence a speaker whose extreme views they find abhorrent. Republican state legislators around the country have recently floated bills that would essentially authorize police brutality against protesters, authorize "unintentional" civilian violence against protesters, and make some forms of unlawful protest a felony. These may just be idiosyncratic tactical battles in […]
- Free Expression
February 13, 2017
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Security plans for the Democratic convention in Denver must be changed to make room for dissent

[…] must be tempered by what stands to go on outside of the convention, in the Pepsi Center's parking lot and on the streets of Denver. The Denver Police Department and the federal Secret Service have crafted a 'security' plan to deal with protesters that, for all its sensitivity to free speech concerns, could well […]
- Free Expression
June 3, 2009
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Four Open-Government Battles We Are Fighting and Why They Matter

[…] about just four key cases in FAC’s Strategic Litigation Program — all of which take crucial steps in the waning moments of 2019. 1. FAC’s Campaign for Police Transparency Today, our statewide campaign to enforce California’s landmark police accountability law continues, with a hearing at the First District Court of Appeal in San Francisco, […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
December 19, 2019
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FAC’s Top Sunshine Week Resources

[…] open-government lawyers. California Public Records resources:Updated in 2023, FAC’sCPRA primer,FAQ, and FAC’sCPRA request templateletter feature strategic language that may be useful when submitting requests in California. Uncovering Police misconduct: Our Police Transparency Handbook, also updated in 2023, is dedicated to California’s laws covering public access to police misconduct and use-of-force records. The guide includes sample request […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
March 15, 2024
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FAC, ACLU Sue for Public Access to Kern County Superior Court

[…] Tanisha Brown, was turned away when she tried to observe a June 10 hearing in the case against her son, arrested during a rally in Bakersfield protesting police brutality against Black people. Others also at the courthouse to support her son — who was beaten so badly during the rally that he was hospitalized […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 26, 2020
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FAC Demands Investigation, Return of Equipment After Photojournalist Arrested

[…] journalist Jeremy Portje last week. Portje was filming at a homeless encampment in Sausalito on November 30, when he was arrested and his equipment seized by Sausalito police. News articles cover the arrest and seizurehere,here, andhere. The joint letter to Marin County District Attorney Lori Frugoli, Sausalito Mayor Jill Hoffman, and Sausalito Police Chief […]
- Press Freedom
December 8, 2021
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Conservatives’ faith in local government is misplaced: The closer government is to the people, the more government is controlled by special interests.

[…] and extortion -- although there's no shortage of those, as revealed again and again in undercover investigations mostly conducted, notably, by the FBI (not state and local police, who tend to look the other way). I'm referring to the soft corruption of legislators and regulators who are bought and paid for by special interest […]

May 3, 2012
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Blogger-Journalist Josh Wolf must be the first journalist to go to jail to protect evidence he didn’t have.

[…] street demonstration, disclosed to the government simultaneously with their posting on the internet last week, reveal nothing about the incidents that prosecutors are investigating: injury to a police officer and alleged damage to a police car. Moreover, in a sworn statement given in lieu of testimony to a grand jury, Wolf says he knows […]
- Press Freedom
June 2, 2009