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FAC Represents Newsroom After Shasta Elections Official Illegally Excludes its Journalists from Media Release Distribution
October 9, 2025
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FAC Urges L.A. Unified School District to Fulfill Records Request Without Charging Unlawful Fees
[…] other school employees," from 2014 to the present. For 11 months, the District failed to determine whether disclosable records responsive to McDede’s request existed or assert any exemptions. After waiting for all those months — and still not providing an answer — the District then assessed McDede $8,000 in fees simply to "investigate approximately […]June 25, 2025
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I could not display a video during my public comment at a city council meeting
[…] raises two distinct issues: (1) the extent to which a government agency can regulate the process and form of public comments; and (2) what remedies are available for violations of public comment rules. We will first address limitations on public comment, and then we will share information about the Brown Act’s remedies separately, below. […]April 3, 2025
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SPLC, FAC urge Stanford to call for DA to decline charges against student journalist
Update: On January 20, Levin responded to FAC and SPLC and confirmed that Gohill will not face discipline by the university. See coverage in the San Francisco Chronicle. FAC and the Student Law Press Center called on Stanford President Jonathan Levin to confirm student journalist Dilan Gohill will not face disciplinary action by the university […]January 17, 2025
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Our Fight for Government Transparency, a Free Press, and Free ExpresssionMay 1, 2024
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Gov Brown, Veto SB 1300. Ostensibly about oil refineries, SB 1300 threatens public access rights.
[…] Ostensibly a bill to strengthen safety regulation of oil refineries, SB 1300, introduced by Senator Lonnie Hancock (D-Berkeley), requires oil companies to file reports on scheduled shutdowns, typically for maintenance, of their refinery facilities. So far, no problem. Then came last-minute amendments, backed by organized labor as well as oil companies, that give oil companies […]September 9, 2014
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[…] to obtain those people's confidential records. Those two behaviors are not analogous. There is a bright line between "generic misrepresentation" and specifically pretending to be someone else for the purpose of obtaining that person's confidential records. For starters, phone, financial, medical and video-store records are specifically protected under federal law. But beyond that, reporters […]June 2, 2009
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Op-ed: California Governor Should Commit to Transparency in Clemency Process
[…] in California are generally prohibited from doing — automatically filing records completely under seal? This is a mystery the First Amendment Coalition has been trying to unravel for more than two years, since our organizationlearned of a secretive docketat our state’s highest court. Records related to executive clemency submitted to the court were being […]July 7, 2021
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FAC Urges California Supreme Court to Require Transparency in Clemency Proceedings
[…] little information about what’s being put before the court. Today, in response to the court’s invitation to submit comments on a proposed administrative order governing a process for these records, FAC asked the justices to ensure the process follows existing rules of court and the common law presumption of openness, which reject default sealing. […]January 13, 2021
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FAC posts online confidential CalPERS’ docs ordered released by Court
September 28, 2010