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    First Amendment Press Rights

    FAC Urges Court to Reject Attorney’s Attempt to Censor Vallejo News Site

    On January 25, the Vallejo Sun published "Vallejo officer fired for Willie McCoy shooting had history of complaints before joining Vallejo police," a story that details former Vallejo police officer Ryan McMahon's history of misconduct complaints at other police departments before joining the Vallejo Police Department in 2017. McMahon is currently in arbitration to […]

    January 27, 2024

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    Blog Cases

    Federal Judge declines US request to freeze FAC’s FOIA suit for targeted killing memo

    The US Justice Department has failed in its effort to derail the First Amendment Coalition's FOIA suit for access to a government legal memo on the lethal targeting of US citizens engaged in terrorism against US interests. US District Judge Claudia Wilken on Tuesday denied the Justice Department's request to stay proceedings in the […]

    July 24, 2012

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    Brown Act CPRA

    Are a city manager’ meetings with his staff covered by the Brown Act?

     Recently I learned our City Manager approved the implementation of a significant change to a public fee-paid service without presenting it for a city council review or approval, thus also without ever notifying the affected public as a whole or the media of the change. Impacted residents were individually notified to comply with the […]

    January 18, 2015

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    CPRA Police Records

    Accessing Police Reports on Investigations

    […] public entities are presumed to be public unless one of the Act's enumerated exceptions to disclosure applies. Government Code section 6254(f) sets forth the so-called "law enforcement" exemption, which allows law enforcement agencies (such as a city police department) to withhold, among other things, records of complaints and investigatory records.  This exemption does not, […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Press Release

    California First Amendment Coalition to Tell Congressional Commission that China’s Internet Censorship Violates WTO Treaties

    […] by U.S. technology companies in internet censorship, and the application of WTO treaties to the "Great Firewall," as China's censorship system has come to be known. Testifying for CFAC is Gilbert Kaplan, a trade law expert in Washington, who represents CFAC in its WTO initiative. In briefings to the US Trade Representative (USTR), the […]

    June 3, 2009

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    CPRA

    Tape recording closed sessions

    As an elected Trustee for a local school district, may I record closed session for my personal use (note taking)? These would not be permanent records as I would reuse the tape for the next recording.

    June 14, 2009

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    First Amendment

    Changing search warrant policy

    […] search warrant policy where the affiants or other law enforcement officer who is filing the search warrant redacts information from the warrant in order to reduce the work of the exhausted and overworked court clerks. Items redacted include vehicles searched, addresses searched, and persons being searched.  The clerk’s office has the redacted files for viewing.

    June 14, 2009

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    FAC News Press Release

    EFF and ACLU Staffers Win 2017 FAC Award for Work on Public Access to Police Surveillance Records

    […] that the Los Angeles Police Department and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department could not justify withholding records collected by ALPRs by relying on the so-called "investigative records" exemption to the California Public Records Act (CPRA). The ruling set an important precedent at a time when police are increasingly using dragnet-style technologies to surveil the […]

    November 27, 2017

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    CPRA Police Records

    Accessing Police Reports

    […] Act, the public has a presumptive right of access to records maintained by government agencies, and may inspect or copy those records unless one of the Act's exemptions applies.  One of those exemptions, found at Government Code section 6254(f), relates to police reports.  In a case called Williams v. Superior Court, 5 Cal. 4th […]

    June 14, 2009