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NYT still has the power to alter the facts of the very story on which it is reporting.

[…] of the people and institutions they report on. Take for example an article in the business section of Sunday’s New York Times about commercial websites that publish police mugshots---millions of mugshots obtained as public records from police departments across the country. These websites are in the humiliation business, posting mugshots indiscriminately, with no consideration […]

October 7, 2013
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MuckRock, The New York Times, Bloomberg, and the North Coast Journal Honored with FAC’s Free Speech and Open Government Award

[…] collaborative news platform MuckRock. Following a single tip, Thadeus Greenson of the North Coast Journal obtained, through several public records requests, more than 2,000 pages of internal police reports and court filings to write "The Soeth Files," which details years of "questionable decisions and uses of force" by law enforcement officer Maxwell Soeth. Soeth […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Press Freedom
February 26, 2024
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LAPD’s use of “Stingray” cell-phone monitoring tool revealed by FAC public records request

BY PETER SCHEER–The records published below–released to the First Amendment Coalition by the Los Angeles Police Department–confirm LAPD’s use, in criminal investigations, of a controversial technology for tracking cell phones. Devices using this technology, "International Mobile Subscriber Identity" locators, operate by mimicking a cellphone tower, causing cell phones that are within range to connect […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
February 15, 2013
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Free the Hewlett-Packard 5!

Corporations must have power to police leaks internally so newspapers will remain free to publish leaks By Peter Scheer California Attorney General Bill Lockyer wasted no time in filing criminal charges against former Hewlett-Packard Chairwoman Patricia Dunn, H-P's senior legal counsel and three outside security consultants for alleged crimes committed in the course of […]
- Press Freedom
June 2, 2009
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FAC teams up with New America Media and CA Black Media to assist ethnic journalists

[…] An agency has said no to your public record request, or a judge has placed the documents "under seal." What are your options? Or suppose you encounter police making an arrest on a public street. Can police legally stop you from using your smartphone to tape the arrest? From posting that tape on a […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
July 23, 2016
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FAC Receives $30K Grant from Central Valley Foundation — and $10K Matching Opportunity

[…] to government records and meetings, and civic engagement." FAC’s recent groundbreaking work includes itsefforts in defense of freelance journalist Bryan Carmody, who was raided by San Francisco police in violation of California’s journalist shield law.FAC alsospearheaded a legal battle to enforce California Senate Bill 1421, the state’s landmark police transparency law, and issuing the […]

September 12, 2019
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FAC Receives $100k Gift from Craig Newmark Philanthropies

[…] criminal subpoenas to journalists. Most recently, FAC arranged for counsel to represent freelance journalist Bryan Carmody, who was subject to illegal search warrants, executed by San Francisco police officers, sparking national outrage from press advocates and others. FAC has also filed a motion to unseal the search warrants used in Carmody’s case, to allow […]
- Free Expression
- Press Freedom
June 20, 2019
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FAC names free speech award winners–and one loser

[…] 2006, while a member of the Assembly, he sponsored a bill that prohibits prior restraint and other censorship of college press. Against great political pressure from the police lobby, Yee cast a yes vote on legislation that would have restored public access to law enforcement discipline records and hearings. Yee’s support of scholastic journalists […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Press Freedom
October 22, 2009
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FAC Honors 2021 Free Speech & Open Government Award Winners

[…] Week call-out asking for the documents, and produced a project that fueled a growing worker-led movement in Silicon Valley. Sukey Lewis and Sandhya Dirks, journalists, for advancing police transparency across California through tenacious reporting that illuminated, in sometimes heart-wrenching detail, how secrecy surrounding officer misconduct and violence contributed to systemic failures and individual tragedies. […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
February 9, 2022
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Digital strip-search: Case of lost iPhone prototype shows the danger of using search warrant to seize journalists’ information

BY PETER SCHEER---Search warrants have always been a blunt instrument for finding evidence of crime. Think of television cop shows from the 70s and 80s: A police search of an apartment for drugs was, de facto, a license to ransack all closets, cabinets and dressers. A warrant to seize a letter or other specific […]
- Press Freedom
April 30, 2010