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FAC Joins Brief Urging California Supreme Court to Hold That Internet Content Providers Have a Right Under the First Amendment to Defend Speech on Their Websites
April 20, 2017
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FAC Demands Investigation, Return of Equipment After Photojournalist Arrested
[…] cover the arrest and seizurehere,here, andhere. The joint letter to Marin County District Attorney Lori Frugoli, Sausalito Mayor Jill Hoffman, and Sausalito Police Chief John Rohrbacher asks for the immediate return of Portje’s photo and other equipment to him and defends the media’s right to film in public places. The organizations also ask that […]December 8, 2021
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Everyone Hates Julian Assange—Except For That Time They Used to Love Him
The bipolar, bipartisan love/hate for the Wikileaks founder threatens the First Amendment and has clouded the true nature of the fundamental rights at stake. BY DAVID SNYDER—It’s not hard to find people in Washington with strong opinions about Wikileaks and its founder, Julian Assange. But good luck finding someone with an opinion about Assange […]December 15, 2018
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EFF and ACLU Staffers Win 2017 FAC Award for Work on Public Access to Police Surveillance Records
[…] that the Los Angeles Police Department and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department could not justify withholding records collected by ALPRs by relying on the so-called "investigative records" exemption to the California Public Records Act (CPRA). The ruling set an important precedent at a time when police are increasingly using dragnet-style technologies to surveil the […]November 27, 2017
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Did members of Congress make securities trades to profit from breach of debt limit?
[…] or the press, but what they tell their brokers. So it is with members of Congress during the recent political and financial impasse. Here's a story idea for Washington journalists: Take a look at the securities investments made by key members of Congress in the run-up to the deadline for raising the government's debt […]October 16, 2013
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Court decision on anti-Islam video is potentially hazardous to investigative journalism
[…] in a few hot spots (notably Libya and Egypt, which were on the verge of civil war at the time), the company, to its credit, resisted demands for broader censorship. Among the people most offended by "Innocence of Muslims" was Cindy Garcia, an actor in the film. She sued Google in federal court, claiming […]November 19, 2014
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CFAC and MAPLight sue for public access to state’s legislative database
[…] the Legislative Counsel's office in Sacramento. With our co-petitioner, MAPLight.org, we are seeking a copy of California's full legislative database--the texts of bills, amendments, votes, dates, etc.--- for all legislation. Although the public currently can access this info one bill at a time through the state's official website, that does not allow computer-assisted analysis […]June 3, 2009
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Attorney Judy Alexander Joins FAC as Special Access Litigation Counsel
[…] the state as part of FAC's expanded litigation initiative. Alexander, a former FAC Board member, has 25 years experience in first amendment and access matters, including litigation for news media and other clients to obtain access to public records, meetings, courtrooms and judicial records under the California Public Records Act, the Ralph M. Brown […]March 9, 2010
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Are Myths Killing the Newspaper Business?
[…] the only thing dumber than a newspaper buying a television station is the federal rule that bars it from happening. Eliminate the newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership rules. Yesterday. Antitrust exemptions to permit joint pricing of internet content. This may be a little too close to the DNA of the Newspaper Preservation Act, but given the monopoly […]February 24, 2010
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Apple is right: the order requiring it to create code to defeat iPhone security is “coerced speech” forbidden by the 1st Amdt
[…] what it wants to say, the order compels Apple to say something it doesn’t want to say. The computer program that Apple has been ordered to write for the FBI would disable some of the iPhone security features that are, at this writing, preventing the FBI from cracking the personal password on an iPhone […]March 7, 2016