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Supreme Court to hold oral argument in FAC case this Wednesday at Boalt Hall. Be there!

[…] is being held, not at the Court’s courtroom, but at the UC Berkeley School of Law, Room 215, Boalt Hall. FAC Board member James Chadwick is arguing for FAC. FAC’s co-plaintiff, UCLA Professor Richard Sander, will be represented by LA attorney Jean-Paul Jassy (who recently wrote an amicus brief for FAC in a defamation […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
October 7, 2013
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Super Bowl Score: Cop Overtime $6.3 Million, Taxpayers 0

[…] City hosted "Super Bowl City." And the big losers were not just the Carolina Panthers, they were San Francisco taxpayers, whose elected representatives threw a big party for the billionaire owners of the National Football League. Those are the revelations from public records produced by the San Francisco Controller’s Office in response to Public […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
April 14, 2016
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Sunshine Week Event: Inside the Fight for Public Information

Sunshine Week 2021: Join us for a discussion on navigating barriers to public records and fighting for open government Update: Check out the event recap. The coronavirus pandemic has made accessing public information more challenging than ever, with some governments refusing to even respond to requests for public records. Yet news organizations across the […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
March 2, 2021
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Senator Lieberman calls for misguided internet censorship, but the marketplace of ideas demands that free speech flourish.

[…] individual user would be devastating to the internet. Yet the Senator has hinted, and many top technology-policy experts are concerned, that he might attempt to write an exemption to Section 230 that would require censorship in some cases. Does Mr. Liebermann really believe that if YouTube censors them, there won’t be any more Islamic […]
- Free Expression
June 3, 2009
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Secrecy surrounding public employees’ pay & benefits makes mockery of democracy

[…] come before them---issues that dwarf all others by orders of magnitude---those same elected officials revert to total secrecy. I am referring to decisions on compensation and benefits for public employees--which, for most cities and counties in California, consume north of 80 percent of all government spending. Regardless of one’s party affiliation or views about […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 24, 2015
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SCOTUS is about to bring down hammer on public sector unions. That will be good for democracy, not so good for freedom of speech.

[…] positions with which they may disagree, constitute "coerced speech" in violation of the first amendment. The Court’s prior cases have permitted these arrangements as necessary to pay for collective bargaining activities---which benefit union members and nonmembers alike---subject to the proviso that nonmembers must be able to obtain a refund for overtly political activities, like […]
- Free Expression
January 20, 2016
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San José releases trove of mayor’s emails in FAC public records case

The fight for transparency continues Friends, Earlier this year, wefiled a lawsuitto bring more transparency to San José City Hall. The lawsuit seeks to enforce the California Public Records Act after city officials failed to turn over emails, text messages and other documents we believe the public was entitled to see. This month, we […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
October 17, 2022
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SacBee calls for more transparency in compensation agreements with public employee unions

[…] local government labor contract negotiations. You can understand the logic and the urgency behind his idea when you consider the situation in Vallejo. That city is filing for bankruptcy. Why? Local officials approved salary and benefits costs for current employees and retirees that are more than the city can afford. Scheer's point is that […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 2, 2009
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Rating the leading Presidential candidates on First Amendment issues. And the winner is . . .

[…] rights. As a lawyer with an elite legal pedigree whose first professional gig was investigating Richard Nixon's predations against civil liberties during Watergate, she has an appreciation for both the danger of excessive governmental secrecy, and the importance of the press as an institutional counterweight. On the other hand, as a subject of Congressional […]

June 3, 2009
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Pultizer Prize-winning reporter describes quest for truth in Las Vegas construction deaths

By Donal Brown Wall Street Journal reporter Alexandra Berzon said that favorable circumstances set the stage for the stories on Las Vegas construction deaths that earned her a 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service when she was with the Las Vegas Sun. It is clear, though, that her success in the project derived centrally […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
November 11, 2009