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    FAC Sues Ventura County Sheriff for Violating Public Records Act

    […] the dark about the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office, and that needs to change." FAC’s transparency efforts in Ventura County go back to January 2020. FAC requested records for all of 2019, the year California Senate Bill 1421, or the "Right to Know Act," and a companion statute covering audio/visual recordings of critical incidents took […]

    March 30, 2021

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    FAC Sues DOJ Over Trump Administration’s Secret Collection of Journalist’s Records

    […] in San Francisco under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), seeks memos, emails or other documents that would shed light on why the DOJ collected Watkins’ records for months secretly, i.e., without providing her notice and an opportunity to challenge the collection in court. The DOJ’s own internal rules require such notice to journalists, […]

    September 19, 2018

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    FAC Receives James Madison Freedom of Information Award from SPJ NorCal

    […] records and professional equipment, FAC jumped in immediately and led a legal fight to unseal the affidavits used to justify the search, later suing Mayor London Breed for records related to the raid. At the same time, FAC has been at the forefront ofnumerous battles over the scope of California’s new landmark policy transparency […]

    February 7, 2020

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    FAC Receives $100k Gift from Craig Newmark Philanthropies

    […] Initiative, which connects journalists with qualified pro bono counsel to defend them against subpoenas seeking confidential sources and notes. "FAC is truly grateful to Craig Newmark Philanthropies for this generous gift, which will allow us to continue and expand our fight for speech and press freedoms, public access to government records and meetings, and […]

    June 20, 2019

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    FAC Partners with MuckRock to Expand Reach of Open Records, Meetings Database

    […] Snyder. "MuckRock is providing a fantastic 21st-century solution to ensure anyone can simply and easily file public records requests. Hopefully, our resource will make it even easier for people to solicit information from their government." In addition to their online tools for seeking public records, MuckRock also provides a repository of hundreds of thousands […]

    May 29, 2018

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    FAC Moves to Unseal Records in BART Station Murder Case

    […] no evidence to justify secrecy, as required under the First Amendment and California law. Moreover, the court considered no alternatives to secrecy — also a legal requirement for sealing. "This case involves terrible crimes committed at public transportation facilities used by thousands of commuters daily. There is a legitimate public interest in these proceedings, […]

    October 31, 2019

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    FAC Fights Unprecedented Effort by School District to Recover Nearly $500K From Records Requester

    […] to learn about their government. Newark Unified has asked the Alameda County Superior Court in California to order Elizabeth Brazil to pay the school district $449, 317.60 for time the district’s attorneys spent litigating Brazil’s effort to obtain records under the California Public Records Act. If the school district were to prevail on this […]

    February 6, 2018

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    FAC Attorneys Awarded $100k for Public Records Win

    […] in court costs. Former city manager Tom Williams, who was at the center of the lawsuit, also must pay FAC’s attorneys $7,750 in attorneys fees and costs, for a total of $99,760. The order comes after over a year of litigation against both Milpitas and Williams. FAC prevailed in its lawsuit on May 25, […]

    October 23, 2018

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    FAC and Local Community Group Sue San Jose Over Secret Negotiations With Google

    […] produce records under public records laws." WPUSA deputy executive director Maria Noel Fernandez said the public shouldn’t be left in the dark when it comes to plans for Google’s large campus—which will hold up to 20,000 employees—given what it might do to the city’s housing crisis, homelessness, eviction rates, and the cost of living. […]

    November 13, 2018

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    FAC amicus brief: agency can’t take back records mistakenly released

    […] the requester refused. The central issue is whether the inadvertent release of privileged documents causes a "waiver" of the attorney-client privilege. That would not be the case for a release of records between parties in litigation—for example, in civil discovery. In that setting the lawyer for the party receiving the mistakenly released records is […]

    January 24, 2015