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Fifth Judge Sides with FAC, Orders Release of Records in Bryan Carmody Raid

The First Amendment Coalition has prevailed in unsealing a fifth and final warrant that targeted freelance journalist Bryan Carmody, capping a months-long fight for transparency in the now-infamous raid that drew widespread condemnation. A San Francisco judge on Aug. 22 issued an order granting FAC’s motion to unseal a warrant application for a search […]
- Press Freedom
September 3, 2019
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Federal Judge Prevents Enforcement of California’s “IMDb Law” on First Amendment Grounds

[…] of the court" brief last month opposing the law on First Amendment grounds. That brief argued the IMDb law ran afoul of the strong First Amendment protections for the publication of truthful information. The order, by U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria of San Francisco, found that the "IMDb law" indeed violates the First Amendment. […]
- Press Freedom
February 24, 2017
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FAC’s Top Sunshine Week Resources

Every week is Sunshine Week at FAC, where we are fighting for government transparency and your right to know all year round. As Sunshine Week comes to a close this year, we wanted to share some of our top resources: Watch: Unlocking Public Records in California, where FAC’s open-government experts focused on educating journalists […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
March 15, 2024
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FAC, joining info requests for Palin speech at UCS-Stanislaus, also requests speaking contract for Bill Clinton talk at UC Berkeley

FAC---The First Amendment Coalition has filed a request under the Public Records Act for the speaking contract covering Sarah Palin's planned appearance at a fundraising event for CSU Stanislaus in June. FAC has also requested the speaking contract for Bill Clinton's appearance and speech at UC Berkeley in February. Arrangements for Palin's speech have […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
April 8, 2010
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FAC, EFF and Wired win unsealing of documents in hip-hop website seizure case

BY DEBORAH FRUIN--A federal district court in Los Angeles has unsealed records related to a government shutdown of a music blog/website, Dajaz1.com, for suspicion of copyright piracy. The unsealing had been requested by FAC, Wired, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Using a forfeiture authority usually invoked to seize cars and houses in drug cases, […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
May 16, 2012
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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 […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
May 3, 2018
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FAC Urges Reversal of Ruling Allowing Secret Government Meetings for Speculative ‘Public Safety’ Concerns

The First Amendment Coalition (FAC) today filed an amicus brief in a California Court of Appeal case that could have far-reaching consequences for the transparency of government meetings. In the brief, FAC urges the court to find that Metrolink, Southern California’s largest commuter rail system, violated the state’s open-meetings laws when it barred the […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
May 14, 2018
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FAC suit against San Diego yields previously secret records on police use of invasive cell phone surveillance tool

[…] the vicinity to transmit information revealing their owners and the phones' exact location. In 2015 FAC filed a public records suit against the San Diego Police Department for access to records about the department’s use of the Stingray. Records released recently as part of that lawsuit reveal the complete text of previously-secret nondisclosure agreements […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
February 2, 2016
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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 […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
March 30, 2021
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FAC Sues DOJ Over Trump Administration’s Secret Collection of Journalist’s Records

[…] in San Francisco under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), seeks memos, emails or other documents that would shed light on why the DOJ collected Watkins’ records for months secretly, i.e., without providing her notice and an opportunity to challenge the collection in court. The DOJ’s own internal rules require such notice to journalists, […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
September 19, 2018