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2007 FAC Awards: CFAC Names Six Award Winners, One Big Loser

[…] gave a joint Beacon Award to State Senator Gloria Romero (Los Angeles) and Assemblyman Mark Leno (San Francisco) for their sponsorship of legislation to open up selected police disciplinary files to public view, to establish journalists’ right to interview California prisoners, to increase access to public records and to improve open meeting laws. CFAC […]

June 3, 2009
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Public Meetings

FAC opposes bill that would weaken open-meetings protections

[…] so, reducing face-to-face accountability. The bill would write into the Brown Act an unprecedented level of remoteness to public meetings, such as those held by a new police oversight commission in Vallejo, a controversial civilian elections committee in Shasta County, and a budget committee in San Diego, just to name a few examples. Consider […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 3, 2024
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Newsgathering

Coalition Calls on DA to Decline Charges Against Stanford Student Journalist

[…] student and reporter who covers campus activism for The Stanford Daily, was booked along with a dozen protesters on charges of felony burglary, vandalism, and conspiracy, after police responded to a protest and occupation of the Stanford president’s office. In a letter sent today to Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen, the organizations […]
- Press Freedom
June 20, 2024
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Government Doesn’t Decide Who Is (and Isn’t) a Journalist

[…] conference she’d attended — without issue — hundreds of times before. But that day, Price’s media reps had refused to honor Raguso’s press pass from the Oakland Police Department, telling her they were conducting a review of her press credentials. "They were telling me that I was not even a reporter, that I just […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
July 3, 2024
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CPRA

Fees for “compiling” digital documents at UC?

May 15, 2012
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CPRA

Individual accessing results on their own background check

When applying as a police officer, I was told I failed my background, but I when I asked what I failed, I was refused an answer. Each department has stated the same, so how do I make them tell me, since I can't get ahead or take care of any problem if I don't […]

June 14, 2009
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Recording at a Board and Care Facility without Permission

[…] is occupied by someone else. In People v. Escudero, the California Supreme Court analyzed the general rule that a landlord has no authority to consent to a police entry of premises occupied by a tenant and how such rule has been applied to other settings. For example, the court stated that this general rule […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA Newsgathering School Records

State university won’t disclose student cafeteria workers’ pay

The Supreme Court held in a 2007 case that the salaries of certain highly paid employees, specifically police officers earning more than $100,000 a year, were subject to disclosure under the Public Records Act (and those salaries could be matched with specific names). See IFPTE v. Superior Court, 42 Cal. 4th 319 (2007). Case after case following […]

June 14, 2014
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First Amendment

How do we respond to government harassment of our protest?

[…] large signs over the frwy as these overpasses have metal grids fencing. This in turn slowed but did not impede or block or obstruct moving traffic. Houston police never asked us to leave and did not worry us however Dept of Transportation employees kept trying to find ways to get us off the overpass. […]

September 18, 2013
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First Amendment Newsgathering

City Won’t Add Us to E-mail List

[…] (Times Picayune Publishing Corp. v. Lee, 15 med. L Rep. 1713, 1716-19 (E.D. La. 1988)), and where city officials denied reporters for a particular newspaper access to police files generally available to other reporters. Quad-City Community news Service, Inc. v. Hebens, 334 F. Supp. 8, 15 (S.D. Iowa 1971). In California, a court held […]

February 8, 2018