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    Media Leak Investigations and the First Amendment

    […] by the First Amendment Coalition and First Amendment Watch, a project of New York University’s journalism program. FAC Executive Director David Snyder interviewed Ellen Nakashima, a national security reporter for the Washington Post, Charlie Savage, a national security reporter for the New York Times, and Gabe Rottman, director of the Technology and Press Freedom Project of the Reporters […]

    August 13, 2024

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    How much can I spend advertising against a ballot measure?

    […] a loan by a third party, or an enforceable promise to make a payment, unless it is clear from the surrounding circumstances that it is not made for political purposes." Gov't Code § 82025. "A payment is made for 'political purposes' IF IT IS: 'For the purpose of influencing or attempting to influence the […]

    July 7, 2010

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    CPRA

    The CPRA and privately owned utilities companies

    […] agency." A "state agency" is defined as "every state office, officer, department, division, bureau, board, and commission or other state body or agency, except those agencies provided for in Article IV (except Section 20 thereof) or Article VI of the California Constitution."Cal. Gov. Code § 6252(f).It would not seem that the Water Company fits […]

    August 7, 2011

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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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    California Reporting Project Wins 2019 FAC Award for Police Accountability Coverage

    […] Area News Group/Southern California News Group, Capital Public Radio, Investigative Studios (of UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program), KPCC/LAist, KQED and the Los Angeles Times to submit requests for records under California’s new police transparency law, Senate Bill 1421, and to share results. The initiative quickly grew, and now includes more than 40 newsrooms that […]

    December 2, 2019

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    CPRA

    Are confidential marriage certificate applications accessible under the CPRA?

    […] record and not open to public inspection without an order from the court. Section 511(c) goes on to say that "the county clerk may conduct a search for a confidential marriage certificate for the purpose of confirming the existence of a marriage, but the date of the marriage and any other information contained in […]

    July 24, 2013

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    CPRA

    Written correspondence to and from officials as public record

    […] policy requiring council members to make public all written correspondence including email rec'd from private citizens regardless of its content, citing the Brown Act and the desire for a more "transparent" city gov't. A number of citizens believe that this is a violation of their 1st Amend & privacy rights and is just an […]

    June 14, 2009

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    FAC Opposes Legislation that Would Weaken Public Oversight of Government Officials in California

    […] laws under the guise of increasing remote access to meetings. The most problematic provisions undermine the democratic values of open government and oversight of our public institutions for the convenience of politicians — allowing public officials to do the public’s business from private locations that are neither identified nor accessible to the public. And […]

    May 13, 2022

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    Bagley-Keene Act Newsgathering

    Arrested at meeting for commenting on no-public-comment rule

    […] the Dept. of Fish and Game. The facilitators illegally tried to establish a no public comment and no recording policy at these public meetings. I was arrested for trying to openly record the meeting, and for stating that the no public comment policy was illegal. They have, as of last week, reversed their illegal […]

    July 2, 2010