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    FAC News Press Release

    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

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act School Records

    Right to Videotape School Board Meetings

    […] historically violated the rights of English Language Learners and children with disabilities and their parents. Currently, 75% of the students are Latino and it is a hardship for many of the parents to attend school board meetings because usually closed sessions do not end until 8/9 pm and public transportation stops running at 10 […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Journalistic Standards v. California Labor Code

    […] and political activities. The Daily Triplicate is being sued in federal District Court by Kent Gray, a former staff reporter. Gray was fired after becoming a candidate for the Del Norte County Board of Supervisors in 2003. A month prior Gray had alerted his editor, Mike Schmeltzer, of his intensions to run for office […]

    June 2, 2009

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    CPRA

    Obtaining Legal Records of a Public Agency

    […] requested the list of legal expenses, by attorney, billing statements and /or invoices by case or project from the City and Redevelopment Agency.  I did not ask for any other information about any of the litigation or project. They took over a month to provide me with a ledger from the finance department with […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Press Release

    Reporter Sues Alameda County for Sideshow Law That Criminalizes Journalism

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: fac@firstamendmentcoalition.org SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — Today, Oaklandside reporter Jose Antonio Garcia sued Alameda County in federal court over its Ordinance 2023-31, which criminalizes merely being present within 200 feet of a "sideshow" for the purpose of observing it. This law has prevented Garcia, who writes using another family name, […]

    July 2, 2024

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    2007 FAC Awards: CFAC Names Six Award Winners, One Big Loser

    […] among the recipients of awards given by the California First Amendment Coalition (CFAC) at the organization’s Free Speech and Open Government Assembly held at the Annenberg School for Communication in Los Angeles. The awards are given in recognition of an individual’s or organization’s courage and commitment to First Amendment principles. Chauncey Bailey The 2007 […]

    June 3, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    Court Records

    CA Supreme Court denied my petition and I demand the right to know why

    A petition for review to the CA Supreme Court is assigned to a legal staff who drafts a "conference memorandum" which summarizes the case facts, outlines the issues, and makes a recommendation to the court whether the case presents sufficiently important issues for review. Under the "petition clause" of the constitution I feel that […]

    April 13, 2012

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    Court Records

    Disclosure of Traffic Tickets, Personal Information

    […] v. Superior Court, 20 Cal. 4th 1178 (1999); Burkle v. Burkle, 135 Cal. App. 4th 1045 (2006). California Rule of Court 243.1 sets forth the stringent requirements for sealing (ie, denying public access) to court records.  For a document to be sealed, the court must make specific findings on the record, including that there […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Press Release

    FAC Victory in “Reverse CPRA” Case: Court Orders Disclosure of Records Alleging Misconduct by Milpitas City Official

    In an important win for government transparency, a Santa Clara Superior Court judge has ruled that the city of Milpitas must release documents relating to allegations of serious misconduct by former city manager Tom Williams. The city originally withheld the documents based in part on a "reverse California Public Record Act" lawsuit filed by […]

    May 3, 2018

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    Blog Cases

    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 […]

    October 7, 2013