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  • Latest News

    FAC News Press Release

    FAC Gets $100K Boost from Craig Newmark Philanthropies

    […] battles have resulted in better press and public access to court proceedings —an important right under the First Amendment — and a precedent-setting ruling that ensures more police transparency across California. "Access to public information and a strong press equipped to get it in the hands of the electorate are crucial for the health […]

    August 24, 2021

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    FAC News Press Release

    FAC Free Speech & Open Government Award winners honored at Cal Press Foundation 138th Annual Dinner Banquet

    […] High Desert State Prison for Rolling Stone Magazine; Thadeus Greenson, editor of the North Coast Journal in Humboldt County, for his single ­handed and sophisticated pursuit of police dashboard camera videos; an extraordinary series of stories by Julie K. Brown of the Miami Herald on corruption and abuse in Florida Prisons; the Center for […]

    December 15, 2015

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    FAC News Press Release

    Craig Newmark Philanthropies Commits $75K to FAC

    […] free Legal Hotline, open to anyone with questions about their First Amendment or freedom-of-information rights. FAC’s lawyers helped ensure the release of thousands of pages of internal police records, and the unsealing of previously secret court records. And FAC hosted nearly two dozen live forums and custom workshops. Read more in FAC's 2021 Impact […]

    June 1, 2022

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    Back Talk

    […] I'd be a target for thieves (and worse). I've already been the victim of vicious lies and allegations made to local authorities, resulting in visits from the police. Please feel free to drop by and comment, anonymously if you wish. -Fodder ---- Does the term "journalistic credibility" also apply to the San Francisco Chronicle […]

    June 3, 2009

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    Blog

    Anonymous speech, although constitutionally protected, is mostly digital graffiti

    […] information about the crash of a military transport plane. Another blogger, an Egyptian, posts photos of the scarred body of a teenager who was tortured by Egyptian police. Both bloggers are anonymous. No one can doubt these speakers' need to hide their identities. Their internet postings are in the venerable tradition of the Federalist […]

    June 3, 2009

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    Cases

    Amici Briefs Digest, March 2, 2017

    […] enforcement of the law. Higginbotham v. City of New York—Urging the Second Circuit to hold that the First Amendment protects the right of the public to film police activity. Many circuits have so held but not (yet) the Second. Smith v. City of San Jose—FAC joined other free-speech and media organizations in an amicus […]

    March 3, 2017

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    Blog

    After near-death in Supreme Court, will public employee unions change their ways?

    […] never been an appeal to the Supreme Court). The issue before the Supreme Court was whether the compulsory funding mechanism common to all government unions--those representing teachers, police, firefighters, prosecutors, and more, both at the state and local levels---was unconstitutional. How so? Because, claimed the teachers, requiring workers to pay dues to their union […]

    March 30, 2016

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    2020 and beyond — the fight goes on

    […] Dear Friends of the First Amendment, 2020 has been a critical year for combatting government secrecy and threats to the First Amendment. Americans are demanding answers about police misconduct, the government’s response to the global pandemic, attacks on protesters and journalists — the list goes on.  FAC has answered the call, launching an aggressive […]

    November 20, 2020