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FAC lawsuit leads to model CPRA policy for dot-gov email

[…] the right to petition, that right has never been seen as requiring confidentiality in communications with government. Auburn's email policy would be improved by either removing this exemption or, as a compromise, requiring disclosure of council members' communications with persons or firms having business before the City Council. The San Jose and Auburn policies […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
December 23, 2012
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FAC Honors Open Vallejo, Kaiser Health News, and The Maine Monitor with Annual Award

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 27, 2023 Contact: [email protected] SAN RAFAEL – The First Amendment Coalition is pleased to announce the winners of its 2022 Free Speech and Open Government Award: three journalists who strategically used public records to expose government misconduct and failures of accountability. Some of this work resulted in significant government […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
February 27, 2023
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FAC Helps Defeat Effort by School District to Recover Nearly $500K in Attorneys Fees From Records Requester

[…] attempt to argue Ms. Brazil had done. FAC and the ACLU were joined in their amicus brief by Californians Aware, the California News Publishers Association, the Center for Investigative Reporting, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Los Angeles Times and the McClatchy Company. Here's yesterday’s order And the briefing filed by FAC and the ACLU […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
April 11, 2018
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FAC Fights Secret Hearings in Death Penalty Case

Motion by lawyers for Armando Cruz, charged in rape and murder of 13-year-old Bakersfield girl, seeks to block press and public from all pretrial hearings The First Amendment Coalition is fighting to ensure hearings in a Bakersfield death penalty case remain open to the press and public. FAC’s brief, now on file in Kern […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
September 28, 2020
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CFAC, scholars sue CA State Bar for access to records on affirmative action

[…] today of a lawsuit against the State Bar of California to force it to disclose years of statistical records on bar exam results. The records are sought for an academic research project that will test the controversial theory that affirmative action policies at law schools harm the very minority students they are intended to […]

June 3, 2009
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CFAC files brief to lift gag in BART homicide case

[…] a Superior Court judge in Oakland to rescind his gag order in the highly publicized prosecution of a former BART police officer who is charged with murder for the shooting death--captured on numerous cellphone videos uploaded to Youtube--of Oscar Grant III on New Year's Day. The Coalition's brief, written by Keker & Van Nest […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 3, 2009
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Bench-Bar-Media Committee proposals for greater media access

[…] the Bench-Bar-Media Committee, appointed by the California Supreme Court. The recommendations range from increasing access of cameras and other recording devices in the courtroom, instituting public notices for gag orders by posting on local court websites; and a proposal to develop a rule that requires all courts to post notice of any application for, […]

September 23, 2010
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Amici Briefs Digest, Dec. 2017

[…] and/or letters FAC has joined since the last report: FAC Joined Amicus Briefs Guiffre v. Maxwell: FAC signed on to this amicus brief by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. It asks the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn an extremely overbroad sealing order that purports to require secrecy of records […]
December 8, 2017
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Allegation of ‘Conspiracy’ Not Enough to Evade Free-Speech Protections

[…] ruling that a plaintiff may circumvent the anti-SLAPP statute simply by pleading a conclusory assertion that a defendant engaged in speech of public concern is vicariously liable for the unlawful actions of others, absent any allegation or proof that the defendant specifically authorized, directed, or ratified those actions, as required by the First Amendment. […]

April 20, 2022
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AG Holder, in speech, describes al-Awlaki “lethal targeting” memo that is the subject of recent FAC suit

[…] drone strike in Yemen in September 2010. FAC's suit, filed last month seeks release of the al-Awlaki memo, either redacted or in an unclassified version. Separate suits for this memo and related documents have also been filed by the New York Times (in federal court in Manhattan) and the ACLU (in federal court in […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
March 16, 2012