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    Court Rules Against Huntington Beach Censorship Scheme

    HB ordinance called for "review of library materials containing sexual content"   SANTA ANA — On September 5, in a win for the freedom to read, a state superior court issued a tentative ruling against the City of Huntington Beach in Alianza Translatinx v. City of Huntington Beach, prohibiting the city from implementing and enforcing its […]

    September 9, 2025

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    San Joaquin County Sued for Charging Unlawful Fees for Autopsy Records About Deaths Caused by Police

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: [email protected] Irvine, Calif. – The Investigative Reporting Program ("IRP") at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism filed a lawsuit against San Joaquin County challenging unlawful fees for copies of autopsy reports about deaths caused by law enforcement officers. IRP is represented by Professors Susan E. Seager and Jack Lerner […]

    July 30, 2025

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    L.A. Press Club, Media Outlets Sue Los Angeles County for Harm to Journalists

    […] Today the Los Angeles Press Club (LAPC) and investigative reporting groups Status Coup and The Southlander sued the County of Los Angeles and its Sheriff Robert Luna for violating journalists’ rights under the U.S. Constitution and state law. The groups are represented by Carol Sobel and Weston Rowland of the Law Office of Carol […]

    June 18, 2025

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    Brown Act CPRA

    Can I access emailed public comments that are not read at meetings or summarized in the minutes?

    […] announces that the comments have been forwarded to the other board members. The contents of the received comments are not read out or summarized at the hearing for the information of the public attending, despite requests for this information. While oral comments submitted at the meeting are summarized in the meeting minutes, the emailed […]

    April 24, 2025

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    First Amendment

    Can a school limit a teacher’s speech?

    […] 547 U.S. at 417-21. As the Supreme Court has said, "when public employees make statements pursuant to their official duties, the employees are not speaking as citizens for First Amendment purposes, and the Constitution does not insulate their communications from employer discipline." Garcetti, 547 U.S. at 421. Your state is part of the U.S. […]

    April 1, 2025

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    I Sued My University for Public Records. Here’s What I Learned.

    I shouldn’t have had to sue my own university for public records. I’m a journalist for Mustang News, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo’s student-run newspaper. In my time here, I’ve covered unpaid overtime for student workers during orientation. I reported on Joseph Castro’s appointment to Cal Poly. I investigated how Cal Poly approached sexual […]

    March 20, 2025

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    Thompson v. Spitzer

    This amicus letter argues law professor Andrea Roth is protected by the reporter shield law and First Amendment against a subpoena issued by the Orange County District Attorney's office for sources she spoke to for a 2019 law review article about a controversial DNA collection program. CLOSED

    January 7, 2025