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Should Honking Your Horn to Support a Protest Be Illegal? We Want the Supreme Court to Decide.
Joe Biden speaks at a car rally. Photo: Biden for PresidentDecember 14, 2023
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Events
Media Leak Investigations and the First Amendment
[…] by the First Amendment Coalition and First Amendment Watch, a project of New York University’s journalism program. FAC Executive Director David Snyder interviewed Ellen Nakashima, a national security reporter for the Washington Post, Charlie Savage, a national security reporter for the New York Times, and Gabe Rottman, director of the Technology and Press Freedom Project of the Reporters […]August 13, 2024
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Court Finds Former San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo and City Violated Public Records Act
Liccardo’s Search for Official Business in Personal Text Messages and Email Account Found Deficient FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 30, 2023 Contact: [email protected] San Jose – The City of San Jose and its former Mayor Sam Liccardo violated the California Public Records Act by failing to adequately search through Liccardo’s personal emails and texts, a court ruled Tuesday […]August 30, 2023
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Despite Transparency Laws, FAC is Still Fighting for Police Records
Seven years after California’s landmark police transparency laws went into effect, FAC is still fighting for public disclosure of records about shootings and use of force. California law requires disclosure of records related to any discharge of a firearm at a person by a peace officer or any use of force by an officer […]February 12, 2026
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Cases
Doe v. County of San Benito
Benito Beet Beat responded to the subpoena to Meta for a previously published cartoon with this follow-up cartoon.November 26, 2025
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Cases
Vallejo Sun LLC v. City of Vallejo
Representing the Vallejo Sun, FAC filed this lawsuit against the City of Vallejo for its refusal to release all video footage of the police shooting of Alexander Schumann. As the Sun reported, Vallejo police officers responded to 911 calls about Schumann, who was in apparent mental distress at an apartment complex, breaking car windows […]November 5, 2025
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State Food and Agriculture Agency Must Release Bird Flu Records
[…] filing a landmark transparency lawsuit against the California Department of Food and Agriculture ("CDFA") seeking access to public records documenting which dairies CDFA has placed under quarantine for bird flu. The risk of bird flu infection impacts dairy workers and rural communities because a strain of the virus has become endemic in California’s over […]November 5, 2025
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Advocates Sue CA Department of Food and Agriculture for Withholding Bird Flu Dairy Quarantine Records
November 4, 2025
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FAC Urges Newsom Veto SB 683
[…] a plaintiff to seek a temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction to compel the takedown of a name, image, or likeness on the allegation that publication is for improper commercial use. FAC's letter states: "SB 683 would make it easy for an aggrieved person who dislikes, for example, news coverage or commentary about them […]October 2, 2025