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CFAC sponsors bill to prevent agencies from using anti-SLAPP law to deter citizens' open-gov suits

[…] these claims is not addressed, few will have the courage to pursue claims under California’s open government laws, and noncompliance will become even more ubiquitous. Indeed, it puts a punitive weapon in the hands of public agency members using public taxes for which they are not truly held accountable to pursue their vengeance. " -PS
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 2, 2009
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California’s Computer Privacy Laws Require a Critical Update: SB 178 is it.

Police need a warrant to rifle through papers in your desk drawer, so the same should go for sensitive digital data like email, text messages, location history and stored documents of all kinds. Tell your assemblymember to support S.B. 178 (text of bill), the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (CalECPA), to protect our private digital […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
August 20, 2015
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Brown signs “Richard McKee bill” to tighten Brown Act enforcement

[…] and CNPA. It challenged the Tulare County Board of Supervisors' practice of holding over 46 regular lunchtime meetings outside of public view, without public notification and paid for with public funds. The appeals court ruled that the Brown Act did not allow a prospective remedy--like a declaratory judgment or injunction--based on past violations. The […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
October 14, 2012
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Your Right to Record at the Border

[…] is entrenched in First Amendment law, but it took an eight-year lawsuit to uphold it at U.S. land ports of entry, which are often critical community hubs. For example, the San Ysidro Port of Entry between San Diego and Tijuana is the busiest land port of entry in the Western Hemisphere, with 70,000 vehicles […]
- Free Expression
July 25, 2022
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Your right to COVID-19 outbreak data

[…] matter of law, notwhim or unsubstantiated hunch." Read our full letter to the California Supreme Court. And find more about the case here. Thank you, as always, for your interest in our work. David Snyder Executive Director P.S. Did you hear? We launched our first-ever $1million campaign—theFAC for Allcampaign. We’realready 80% of the way […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
September 2, 2021
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Woodward’s “leaked” Aghanistan report was declassified. How could that happen without Obama’s OK?

[…] about who leaked the report to Woodward, and why. By Tuesday the ascendant theory was that the report was leaked by Pentagon insiders who support McChrystal's call for additional troops and are annoyed at the White House for seeming to delay action on the General's recommendation. Could be. But what caught my eye was […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
September 23, 2009
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When mayors evade disclosure rules by using personal email accounts for city business, it is democracy that suffers. We’ll know soon if the courts, like the public, have lost patience.

For years government officials in California have known that their emails about official business are subject to disclosure as public records. Although mayors, city managers, supervisors and superintendents may not like this, the applicability of the public records law to email messages is settled. You will not be shocked to learn, however, that […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
February 6, 2014
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Unplug Wikileaks? Enact a Federal Shield Law Instead

BY PETER SCHEER----The Obama administration has made no secret of its desire to unplug wikileaks, the whistleblower website infamous for data dumps of classified records. Of the few options available to the government, the best is one that probably hasn't been considered in this context: enacting a federal Shield Law. How would a Shield […]
- Press Freedom
November 16, 2010
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Unanimous Supreme Court OKs duplicative FOIA suit

The Supreme Court ruled today in a federal FOIA case that a person contesting an agency's denial of a record request may file his own suit for disclosure, even though he seeks the very same records that the agency denied in a prior case in which the agency prevailed in court. The case is […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 2, 2009
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Transcript: Protest & Pushback

[…] Fueled by rights afforded by the First Amendment, the country experienced an historic uprising not seen since the Civil Rights era of the 1960s. The reignited movement for Black lives led to concrete changes in policies and politics. And, it changed the conversation about racial justice, and possibly the country, forever. A new generation […]
- Free Expression
December 6, 2021