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FAC Prevails in Effort to Force CA Attorney General to Disclose Police Misconduct Files

A San Francisco judge today ordered California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to begin disclosing police-misconduct files sought by the First Amendment Coalition (FAC)—a victory for government transparency against one of the few remaining police agencies in the state to refuse to comply with Senate Bill 1421, California’s new landmark police transparency bill that went […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
May 17, 2019
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FAC Litigation Report: update on select current cases

[…] FAC on December 15 argued to a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit that FAC’s lawyers are entitled to recover their attorneys’ fees from the federal government for helping ensure that the so-called "drone memos" were exposed to public scrutiny. All three judges on the panel appeared receptive to FAC’s arguments. A decision on […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
January 17, 2017
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Digital strip-search: Case of lost iPhone prototype shows the danger of using search warrant to seize journalists’ information

BY PETER SCHEER---Search warrants have always been a blunt instrument for finding evidence of crime. Think of television cop shows from the 70s and 80s: A police search of an apartment for drugs was, de facto, a license to ransack all closets, cabinets and dressers. A warrant to seize a letter or other specific […]
- Press Freedom
April 30, 2010
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CFAC joins appeal to permit webcasting of file-sharing case in federal court

[…] allowed cameras since an experiment in the 1990s---and the discretion of individual federal district court judges to permit cameras is unclear. The brief, filed yesterday, was prepared by lawyers for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. -PS Read an article about the brief in Online Media Daily. Read an article about the brief in Online Media Daily.
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 2, 2009
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CFAC files suit in affirmative action case to defend researcher’s academic freedom and oppose State Bar’s claim that it is above the law of access

By Peter Scheer Richard Sander, a highly regarded UCLA law professor and statistician, is conducting research with important implications for higher education. To complete the research, which has been the subject of many scholarly articles and intense academic interest, he needs access to a California government database. So why has the State Bar, which […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 3, 2009
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Big victory in CA Supreme Court case on public access to government data

[…] and "open data" initiatives. Orange County had argued that its mapping data, which was stored in the geographic information system (GIS) format, was subject to the PRA's exemption for "software." In fact the county, in responding to the Sierra Club's PRA request in 2010, had originally offered to provide the environmental group with pdf […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
July 10, 2013
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AP, Bloomberg, CNET, Wired.com, LA Times, CNPA join FAC motion in lost-iPhone case

[…] First Amendment Coalition and major news media have requested the California Court presiding over the Gizmodo/missing iPhone matter to unseal judicial records relating to the warrant issued for the search of an online journalist's home and the seizure of his computer, hard drives and other digital files. The motion to unseal the warrant affidavit […]
- Press Freedom
May 6, 2010
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FOIA

Making a FOIA request to the Dept. of Homeland Security

[…] "disclose techniques and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions." At any rate, ideally, the agency should explain how each piece of information sought fits within this exemption. For more information related to the FOIA, here are some resources that you might find useful: Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press: http://www.rcfp.org/foia/ National Freedom […]

July 11, 2011
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Court Records

Guardian access to juvenile case files

[…] or guardians of the juvenile who was the subject of the juvenile proceedings are entitled to access the juvenile case file.No court order is needed in order for the parents or guardians to access the case file.The mother referenced in your query below can go to the Superior Court in which the proceedings were […]

June 14, 2009
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CPRA School Records

Employment documents of officials

Can I request under the Public Records Act the resume and application for employment of a school district Superintendent and Assistant Superintendent. I have an interest only in the prior employment history and will assume the private data (address etc). will be blocked out. My interpretation of 6254(c) is that prior work history is […]

June 14, 2009