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    FAC Moves to Unseal Records in BART Station Murder Case

    […] no evidence to justify secrecy, as required under the First Amendment and California law. Moreover, the court considered no alternatives to secrecy — also a legal requirement for sealing. "This case involves terrible crimes committed at public transportation facilities used by thousands of commuters daily. There is a legitimate public interest in these proceedings, […]

    October 31, 2019

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    FAC Fights Unprecedented Effort by School District to Recover Nearly $500K From Records Requester

    […] to learn about their government. Newark Unified has asked the Alameda County Superior Court in California to order Elizabeth Brazil to pay the school district $449, 317.60 for time the district’s attorneys spent litigating Brazil’s effort to obtain records under the California Public Records Act. If the school district were to prevail on this […]

    February 6, 2018

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    FAC Attorneys Awarded $100k for Public Records Win

    […] in court costs. Former city manager Tom Williams, who was at the center of the lawsuit, also must pay FAC’s attorneys $7,750 in attorneys fees and costs, for a total of $99,760. The order comes after over a year of litigation against both Milpitas and Williams. FAC prevailed in its lawsuit on May 25, […]

    October 23, 2018

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    FAC and Local Community Group Sue San Jose Over Secret Negotiations With Google

    […] produce records under public records laws." WPUSA deputy executive director Maria Noel Fernandez said the public shouldn’t be left in the dark when it comes to plans for Google’s large campus—which will hold up to 20,000 employees—given what it might do to the city’s housing crisis, homelessness, eviction rates, and the cost of living. […]

    November 13, 2018

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    FAC amicus brief: agency can’t take back records mistakenly released

    […] the requester refused. The central issue is whether the inadvertent release of privileged documents causes a "waiver" of the attorney-client privilege. That would not be the case for a release of records between parties in litigation—for example, in civil discovery. In that setting the lawyer for the party receiving the mistakenly released records is […]

    January 24, 2015

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    FAC Again Prevails in Unsealing Search Warrants Executed on SF Journalist Bryan Carmody

    Three San Francisco judges on Friday ordered the public release of sealed applications for three search warrants executed on freelance journalist Bryan Carmody —for his home, office and phone. The release of these materials should help answer a central question in the Carmody saga: how the San Francisco Police Department was able to obtain […]

    August 5, 2019

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    Europe’s High Court Has No Business Telling Google How to Edit Its Search Results

    […] decision of Europe's highest court ordering Google to delete, on request, search results embarrassing to private individuals, is a watershed -- and not a good one -- for the Internet and for freedom of speech. Not that I'm unsympathetic to the college senior whose high school bust for marijuana possession is the first thing […]

    May 14, 2014

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    Equal Justice Society Criticizes CFAC Suit against State Bar for records on affirmative action.

    Group Says Issue is Privacy, not Political Correctness. CFAC's lawyer responds. CFAC's executive director recently criticized the California State Bar for its refusal to cooperate with a UCLA professor who is seeking bar records for academic research on affirmative action in law school admissions. CFAC has filed suit, together with the UCLA Professor, Richard […]

    June 3, 2009

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    Did NBC secretly hand over the Trump grope tape to the Wash Post?

    […] had it aired the tape itself, it might have had legal exposure that the Post could avoid. How so? Because NBC might have been sued by Trump for invasion of privacy (under a California statute requiring all parties to consent to the taping of a conversation) or under some sort of breach of contract […]

    October 18, 2016

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    Despite the complaints of blogger-critics, new federal shield bill is last best chance for meaningful protection of reporters’ confidential sources.

    For the first time since the post-Watergate era, the stars are aligned for Congress to enact--and for the President to sign--a "Shield Law" that would provide meaningful protection against the forced-exposure of journalists' confidential sources. Although nearly all states have shield laws, they do not apply to the subpoenas of federal courts and […]

    September 17, 2013