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Google’s Antitrust Wrist Slap Is Right Result for Wrong Reason. Right Reason: Google Search Results are Protected Speech

[…] relative to other search results, and the presentation generally of website pages responsive to a search -- these choices constitute editorial functions, subject to the strongest safeguards for free speech. The New York Times (or The Huffington Post, Wired.com or other reputable news organization of your choice) gets to decide -- free from government […]

January 7, 2013
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Gmail Nation: The Privatization of Public Records and Public Access

[…] otherwise public records by simply using Gmail. And yet the law has been surprisingly slow to recognize this principle. Private email accounts have been in widespread use for almost two decades now, and we know that for just as long government officials have been using such accounts to transact public business. If the timing […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
April 25, 2017
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Federal Judge rules in FAC case: US can keep secret a legal memo on drone strikes targeting US citizen

[…] the First Amendment Coalition, a federal judge has ruled that the Obama administration does not have to disclose a Justice Department legal memo explaining the legal rationale for drone strikes and, in particular, drone strikes abroad against suspected terrorists who are also US citizens. FAC's suit, based on federal FOIA, was filed shortly after […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
April 15, 2014
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Federal Judge declines US request to freeze FAC’s FOIA suit for targeted killing memo

The US Justice Department has failed in its effort to derail the First Amendment Coalition's FOIA suit for access to a government legal memo on the lethal targeting of US citizens engaged in terrorism against US interests. US District Judge Claudia Wilken on Tuesday denied the Justice Department's request to stay proceedings in the […]

July 24, 2012
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FAC Suit Against San Diego DA Forces Disclosure of Employee Misconduct Records

[…] important principle under the California Public Records Act — that public agencies must produce actual records in their files. The district attorney insisted that it was sufficient for the agency to release tailored summaries of records, while withholding the records themselves. "From inception, this lawsuit was as much about a legal principle as the […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
October 21, 2019
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FAC Sues LAPD Over Failure to Release Bodycam Recordings from Protest

[…] showing the Los Angeles Police Department’s violent treatment of protesters who demonstrated peacefully outside the official residence of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on December 6, 2020. For more than 18 months, the LAPD has refused to turn over the recordings of the incident that left protesters badly injured, despite a landmark police transparency […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
July 6, 2022
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FAC sues Auburn for council members’ business emails sent from private email accounts. Suit also challenges email deletion policy.

[…] in Placer County Superior Court. FAC is joined in the case by Victoria Connolly, an Auburn resident and community activist. She and FAC submitted public record requests for emails to and among Auburn Council members dealing with a local ballot initiative to convert Auburn to a "charter city." The locally controversial ballot issue was […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 11, 2012
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FAC Prevails in Lawsuit Against Bakersfield Over Open Meetings, Records Violations

[…] laws when it held three closed-door sessions to discuss city finances and then refused to release public records related to those meetings. The ruling, a complete victory for FAC and Californians Aware, which sued to enforce California’s open-meetings and open-records laws, requires the city to turn over records, record any future closed-door sessions for […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
January 10, 2020
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FAC Lawsuit Prompts Disclosure of Records Alleging Misconduct by Milpitas City Official

[…] ago, and it’s clear from the timing of the documents’ release — the night before before a court hearing on FAC’s lawsuit — that the city’s original basis for withholding the records is indefensible," said FAC Executive Director David Snyder. FAC filed suit against Milpitas on June 2, seeking a court order forcing Milpitas to […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
October 27, 2017
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FAC joins environmental access suit against Marin County

March 16, 2015