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Unlocking Public Records in California

[…] Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, with support from the Society of Professional Journalists Foundation. Links to resources mentioned in the webinar: The slides to this presentation: https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/10.26.23-Unlocking-Public-Records-in-California-2.pdf FAC’s CPRA Primer: https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/handbook/california-public-records-act/ FAC Legal Hotline: https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/legal-hotline-new/ FAC’s Police Transparency Handbook: https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/police-transparency-handbook/ To request a training session for your classroom, newsroom, or group, please contact the First Amendment Coalition: https://firstamendmentcoalition.org/about/contact-us/

July 22, 2025
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FAC Opposes Legislation that Would Weaken Public Oversight of Government Officials in California

[…] the public. And they’d be able to do this without showing any need or justification. Being able to see your elected representatives in person as they debate police funding, mask mandates, teacher compensation and the like is fundamental to our democratic values. State law already allows officials to appear remotely at meetings under some […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
May 13, 2022
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FAC, Committee to Protect Journalists ask San Francisco mayor to protect press freedoms

[…] letter to San Francisco Mayor London Breed today requesting a meeting about steps the city can take to ensure press freedom. The letter asked Breed to address police officers' use of five warrants to search the home, office and electronics of freelance journalist Bryan Carmody as part of an investigation into how he obtained […]
- Press Freedom
January 21, 2020
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FAC Supports Senate Bill 16 to Improve Police Transparency in California
- Government Transparency and Accountability
April 1, 2021
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California’s Computer Privacy Laws Require a Critical Update: SB 178 is it.

Police need a warrant to rifle through papers in your desk drawer, so the same should go for sensitive digital data like email, text messages, location history and stored documents of all kinds. Tell your assemblymember to support S.B. 178 (text of bill), the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (CalECPA), to protect our private […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
August 20, 2015
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Water district, in settlement with FAC, agrees to disclose water usage by corporations
- Government Transparency and Accountability
October 30, 2014
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Update on open-government legislative proposals in Sacramento

[…] of committee and Solorio, in a statement from his office, said he "decided not to push it forward". AB 1855 AB 1855 began as a bill about police interrogation tactics, but, after it lost that focus, Assemblymember Anthony Portantino considered adding two amendments that would have made police officer names and salaries private information. […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 6, 2009
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Unsealed: Newly released warrant reveals flimsy basis for L.A. sheriff targeting press, protesters

Public access to search warrants provides an important check on police powers. That’s why we went to court to demand the release of warrant materials stemming from the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department mass arrests of protesters and journalists amid a 2020 demonstration over a deputy’s controversial killing of a Black cyclist named Dijon Kizzee. […]
- Press Freedom
June 7, 2023
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The BALCO reporters had a slimy source, we now know. Did the reporters also get slimed?

[…] evidence, an accurate version of an event. Cops rely on "informants," which is a euphemism for a witness who is often involved in the same crimes the police are investigating. An informant’s veracity is questionable. His motives for talking to the police vary, but rarely include a desire to see justice done. Reporters talk […]
- Press Freedom
June 2, 2009
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Taxpayers Going Postal Over Public Employee Pensions, Perks. Unions’ miscalculation: Opting for secrecy.

BY PETER SCHEER---For public employee unions--those representing police, firefighters, teachers, prison guards and agency workers of all kinds at the state and local level--these are the worst of times. Despite record high membership and dues, and years of unparalleled clout in state capitols, public sector unions find themselves on the defensive, desperately trying to […]
- Free Expression
June 11, 2010