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    FAC Forces Disclosure of More Documents From CA Supreme Court ‘Secret Docket’

    […] fraud—in November 2018. Under the California Constitution, the governor was required to seek the state Supreme Court’s approval to grant pardons and clemency to any "twice-convicted felon." For decades, the governor and the high court had treated all of the paperwork filed with these requests as confidential and sealed from public view. The process, […]

    March 21, 2019

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    FAC & Reporters Committee file briefs in Apple v. Samsung secrecy appeal

    […] the unsealing of certain confidential financial records filed under seal by both Apple and Samsung. Also filed Monday: a media amicus brief prepared by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and submitted on behalf of the New York Times, Washington Post, Bloomberg, Dow Jones, Gannett and others. Together, the two amicus briefs […]

    October 17, 2012

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    CFAC Update: Acting globally and locally: From internet censorship in China to a TRO against Atherton, CA

    […] the government of China to end its censorship of the internet. In a submission and presentation to the Office of the US Trade Representative, CFAC has petitioned for the filing of a complaint with the World Trade Organization, of which China became a member in 2001. Our (concededly novel) theory: that China's censorship of […]

    June 3, 2009

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    The Legal Hotline gives users quick, free access to FAC’s lawyers for questions about access to public records and your right to attend government meetings in California; access to court documents and proceedings in California and federal courts; and First Amendment protections for freedom of speech and freedom of the press.

    June 12, 2024

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    Cases

    Amicus Briefs Digest, Sept. 2017

    […] an amicus brief urging the United States Supreme Court to review and reverse a decision by the West Virginia Supreme Court imposing draconian penalties on a candidate for judicial office for statements he made during a political campaign. The Philadelphia firm of Schnader Harrison prepared FAC’s amicus brief, which is in support of Callaghan’s […]

    September 27, 2017

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    Hernandez v. Monterey County

    […] with the settlement has resulted "a death rate at the Jail more than twice the national average and a suicide rate more than three times the average for California jails…. The resulting deficiencies in medical, mental health, and dental care cause daily pain and suffering, including serious medical and dental complications, untreated chronic illnesses, […]

    July 22, 2023

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    CPRA Police Records

    Accessing police Internal Affairs reports

    […] probably not the provision you have in mind.Section 6254(f), also part of the PRA, exempts from disclosure most records of investigations conducted by police agencies (see below for text of Section 6254(f)) That section does provide that: "state and local law enforcement agencies shall disclose the names and addresses of persons involved in, or […]

    September 20, 2010

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    Fee for email copies same as paper copies?

    As for your first question, California’s Public Records Act provides that state and local agencies must provide copies of public records that are not exempt from disclosure "upon payment of fees covering direct costs of duplication, or a statutory fee if applicable." Govt. Code § 6253(b). A charge of 10 cents per page is […]

    March 18, 2010