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Craig Newmark Philanthropies Commits $100K to FAC

[…] and a free press. The gift comes during an especially critical time for combatting government secrecy and threats to the First Amendment. Americans are demanding answers about police misconduct and the government’s response to the global pandemic. FAC is fighting in court to increase police transparency and has answered an unprecedented amount of calls […]

September 9, 2020
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CFAC joins amicus brief backing documentary journalist jailed for refusing to turn over out-takes to federal prosecutors

[…] his filming of a San Francisco street demonstration that turned violent. Federal prosecutors want the unpublished videotapes to find out who set fire to a San Francisco police vehicle. Wolf says he is a journalist who, under the First Amendment, may not be forced to function as an investigator for the police. CFAC supports […]
- Press Freedom
June 2, 2009
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California vs. the First Amendment: FAC & Cal Press Panel Discussion, Dec. 5, 2019

[…] a panel discussion on California vs. The First Amendment. In 2019 Golden State governments were behind an unrelenting series of affronts to the First Amendment in 2019. Police went after a journalist’s sources with a sledgehammer. The state attorney general threatened to prosecute reporters and fought in court to weaken the state’s new police […]
- Press Freedom
November 11, 2019
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California Supreme Court Stops Cities From Charging Steep Fees for Video Redactions

The California Supreme Court today issued an opinion preventing government agencies from charging the public for editing and compiling police body camera footage and other electronic records before the records are released. The First Amendment Coalition and the California News Publishers Association filed an amicus brief in the case, National Lawyers Guild v. City […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
May 28, 2020
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Ballot measure to subdivide CA assumes smaller government is closer to voters. But it’s also closer to special interests.

[…] of bribery and extortion — although there’s no shortage of those, as revealed again and again in investigations 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 politicians who are bought and paid for by special interest groups. Local […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
February 26, 2014
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A close look at Google’s handling of governments’ censorship demands

[…] form of court orders--typically court orders secured by public officials alleging they have been defamed by content on a Google-owned service--and requests received directly from executive officials, police departments, security forces and the like. Despite the alarming increase in governmental take-down demands overall, it appears to be due mainly to a surge in demands […]

April 26, 2013
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First Amendment Police Records

Requesting employee-related information

June 14, 2009
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CPRA Police Records

CHP said I could view dashboard video, but all my requests have been denied

November 12, 2014
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CPRA

Request for police surveillance records met with 90-day delay

September 15, 2011
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CPRA Police Records

Is a coroner’s report a public document?

October 12, 2010