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FAC Suit Against San Diego DA Forces Disclosure of Employee Misconduct Records

[…] important principle under the California Public Records Act — that public agencies must produce actual records in their files. The district attorney insisted that it was sufficient for the agency to release tailored summaries of records, while withholding the records themselves. "From inception, this lawsuit was as much about a legal principle as the […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
October 21, 2019
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FAC Sues LAPD Over Failure to Release Bodycam Recordings from Protest

[…] showing the Los Angeles Police Department’s violent treatment of protesters who demonstrated peacefully outside the official residence of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on December 6, 2020. For more than 18 months, the LAPD has refused to turn over the recordings of the incident that left protesters badly injured, despite a landmark police transparency […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
July 6, 2022
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FAC sues Auburn for council members’ business emails sent from private email accounts. Suit also challenges email deletion policy.

[…] in Placer County Superior Court. FAC is joined in the case by Victoria Connolly, an Auburn resident and community activist. She and FAC submitted public record requests for emails to and among Auburn Council members dealing with a local ballot initiative to convert Auburn to a "charter city." The locally controversial ballot issue was […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 11, 2012
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FAC Prevails in Lawsuit Against Bakersfield Over Open Meetings, Records Violations

[…] laws when it held three closed-door sessions to discuss city finances and then refused to release public records related to those meetings. The ruling, a complete victory for FAC and Californians Aware, which sued to enforce California’s open-meetings and open-records laws, requires the city to turn over records, record any future closed-door sessions for […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
January 10, 2020
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FAC Lawsuit Prompts Disclosure of Records Alleging Misconduct by Milpitas City Official

[…] ago, and it’s clear from the timing of the documents’ release — the night before before a court hearing on FAC’s lawsuit — that the city’s original basis for withholding the records is indefensible," said FAC Executive Director David Snyder. FAC filed suit against Milpitas on June 2, seeking a court order forcing Milpitas to […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
October 27, 2017
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FAC joins environmental access suit against Marin County

March 16, 2015
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FAC Joins Brief Urging California Supreme Court to Hold That Internet Content Providers Have a Right Under the First Amendment to Defend Speech on Their Websites
- Free Expression
April 20, 2017
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FAC Demands Investigation, Return of Equipment After Photojournalist Arrested

[…] cover the arrest and seizurehere,here, andhere. The joint letter to Marin County District Attorney Lori Frugoli, Sausalito Mayor Jill Hoffman, and Sausalito Police Chief John Rohrbacher asks for the immediate return of Portje’s photo and other equipment to him and defends the media’s right to film in public places. The organizations also ask that […]
- Press Freedom
December 8, 2021
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Everyone Hates Julian Assange—Except For That Time They Used to Love Him

The bipolar, bipartisan love/hate for the Wikileaks founder threatens the First Amendment and has clouded the true nature of the fundamental rights at stake. BY DAVID SNYDER—It’s not hard to find people in Washington with strong opinions about Wikileaks and its founder, Julian Assange. But good luck finding someone with an opinion about Assange […]
- Press Freedom
December 15, 2018
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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 […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
November 27, 2017