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FAC Again Prevails in Unsealing Search Warrants Executed on SF Journalist Bryan Carmody

Three San Francisco judges on Friday ordered the public release of sealed applications for three search warrants executed on freelance journalist Bryan Carmody —for his home, office and phone. The release of these materials should help answer a central question in the Carmody saga: how the San Francisco Police Department was able to obtain […]
- Press Freedom
August 5, 2019
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Europe’s High Court Has No Business Telling Google How to Edit Its Search Results

[…] decision of Europe's highest court ordering Google to delete, on request, search results embarrassing to private individuals, is a watershed -- and not a good one -- for the Internet and for freedom of speech. Not that I'm unsympathetic to the college senior whose high school bust for marijuana possession is the first thing […]

May 14, 2014
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Equal Justice Society Criticizes CFAC Suit against State Bar for records on affirmative action.

Group Says Issue is Privacy, not Political Correctness. CFAC's lawyer responds. CFAC's executive director recently criticized the California State Bar for its refusal to cooperate with a UCLA professor who is seeking bar records for academic research on affirmative action in law school admissions. CFAC has filed suit, together with the UCLA Professor, Richard […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 3, 2009
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Did NBC secretly hand over the Trump grope tape to the Wash Post?

[…] had it aired the tape itself, it might have had legal exposure that the Post could avoid. How so? Because NBC might have been sued by Trump for invasion of privacy (under a California statute requiring all parties to consent to the taping of a conversation) or under some sort of breach of contract […]

October 18, 2016
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Despite the complaints of blogger-critics, new federal shield bill is last best chance for meaningful protection of reporters’ confidential sources.

For the first time since the post-Watergate era, the stars are aligned for Congress to enact--and for the President to sign--a "Shield Law" that would provide meaningful protection against the forced-exposure of journalists' confidential sources. Although nearly all states have shield laws, they do not apply to the subpoenas of federal courts and […]
- Press Freedom
September 17, 2013
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David Snyder, Journalist and First Amendment Lawyer, Named to Head FAC

[…] media, including Mother Jones magazine, Salon, and the San Jose Mercury News. He has also represented FAC in its long-running litigation against the State Bar of California for access to data on applicants for admission to the Bar. "David is taking over at a crucial time for First Amendment freedoms," said Peter Scheer, FAC’s […]

November 18, 2016
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Court says NO to request by FAC and others for State Bar records needed for research on affirmative action

[…] the effect of law school affirmative action policies. The Court's ruling in the controversial litigation will be appealed. Judge Curtis E.A. Karnow of the California Superior Court for San Francisco ruled March 29, 2010 that the State Bar is not legally obligated to release the data sought by Richard H. Sander, a professor of […]

April 8, 2010
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Court rules CA counties must disclose pension amounts paid to government retirees

[…] Bee and the California Newspaper Publishers Association, a California Superior Court has ruled that county governments, upon request, must disclose--by name--their retirees' pension payments. The Superior Court for Stanislaus County reasoned that the public interest in access to government employees' pensions outweighs the public interest in protecting the confidentiality of that information. In 2007 […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
November 6, 2009
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Conservatives’ faith in local government is misplaced: The closer government is to the people, the more government is controlled by special interests.

[…] (not state and local police, who tend to look the other way). I'm referring to the soft corruption of legislators and regulators who are bought and paid for by special interest groups, which are able to operate openly and with impunity at the state level. The truth is that state legislatures and regulatory agencies […]

May 3, 2012
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CFAC joins amicus brief backing documentary journalist jailed for refusing to turn over out-takes to federal prosecutors

CFAC, together with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, the Society of Professional Journalists and the WIW Freedom to Write Fund, has filed an amicus brief in the case of independent documentary film maker and self-styled anarchist, Josh Wolf. Here's a PDF of the brief. Wolf is in jail for having refused […]
- Press Freedom
June 2, 2009