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FOIA

Need Assistance Using FOIA To Request My FISA File

Do you offer services for FOIA requests specifically at the FISA Court? This would be for my personal file. If not, can you perhaps recommend an attorney or organization who is willing to help?

April 6, 2020
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CPRA

Multiple CPRA Requests For A Decades Old Homicide Have Been Denied Without Explanation

[…] California Department of Justice regarding a 1981 multiple homicide. I have reason to believe the two suspects in the homicides were not arrested because one of the suspects was a confidential informant at the time. I have asked for clarification or other information on the matter but have turned down several times in the past.

April 28, 2022
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Behind the Headlines: How reporter Robert J. Lopez fought for public records on child farmworkers in California

Strawberry pickers in the Santa Maria Valley work bent over for hours in the hot sun. Photo: Robert J. Lopez

February 10, 2026
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Cases Press Release

Press and Advocacy Groups Demand Private Corrections Giant GEO Group to Unseal Court Records, Footage of Abuse in Notorious Adelanto Immigration Facility

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: [email protected] RIVERSIDE, CA — Public Justice has filed a motion to intervene and unseal crucial court records in Hugo Gonzalez, et al. v. The GEO Group, Inc., et al., a case challenging immigration detention conditions in the Adelanto ICE Processing Center, a notorious immigration detention complex operated by the […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
February 3, 2026
Cases

Public Records

First Amendment Coalition and KQED v. Bonta

FAC has sued the California Attorney General for violating SB 1421, California’s landmark police transparency law that mandated disclosure of records about police shootings, significant uses of force, and serious forms of misconduct. CLOSED
- Government Transparency and Accountability
December 12, 2023
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The Bryan Carmody Story In-Depth

[…] journalist Bryan Carmody, equipped with a sledgehammer and pickax that they used to try to batter down his front gate. Guns drawn, officers placed Carmody in handcuffs for hours while they raided his home and office, seizing a trove of electronic devices and other materials. The raid, part of an investigation into the leak […]

September 3, 2019
Handbooks

California Brown Act Primer

[…] 2022 by Legal Fellow Monica Price, with contributions from Executive Director David Snyder and Legal Director David Loy. It was created in 2006 by James Chadwick, then of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton. Please see this 2023 addendum for an overview of open-meetings law changes that occurred since this guide was published in March 2022.
- Government Transparency and Accountability
September 8, 2024
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FAC’s letter to Gov Brown, urging veto of SB 1300

[…] Coalition (FAC), I am writing to request your veto—or, alternatively, a qualified signing--of Senate Bill 1300, which requires oil companies to file reports on scheduled shutdowns, typically for maintenance, of their refinery facilities. We have no objection to the bill’s substantive regulatory requirements. However, we object strongly to procedural requirements that will seriously curtail […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
September 17, 2014
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Advocacy Press Release

Victory for Transparency: CA Supreme Court Rejects Police Union Effort to Gut Landmark Police Transparency Law

In a significant victory for government transparency and accountability, the California Supreme Court today denied a police union’s last-minute effort to undermine the effectiveness of a new, landmark police transparency law, rejecting the union’s effort to make the law (SB 1421) apply only to records created after January 1, 2019. The First Amendment Coalition […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
January 2, 2019
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Advocacy Blog

New state law adds protections for anonymous online speech

[…] signed a bill that greatly strengthens the right to anonymous speech online. Assembly Bill 2433 raises procedural obstacles to out-of-state companies that subpoena California-based internet service providers for the IDs of anonymous posters. Unless there is a demonstrable basis for the underlying lawsuit, the subpoena will be thrown out and attorney's fees charged to […]
- Free Expression
June 3, 2009