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  • Asked and Answered

    First Amendment Newsgathering

    City Won’t Add Us to E-mail List

    […] addition, differences in the manner in which the information is provided may also be unconstitutional.  Unconstitutional discriminatory treatment of the media can arise in many other situations. For example, courts have found violations of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection clause where a mayor excluded a particular reporter from press conferences to which […]

    February 8, 2018

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    Brown Act CPRA

    A Board member vs. public member rights under PRA

    […] a board member I must follow different rules then the public. I have been told I must make my request in writing to the board chair, and then he would put it on next month's agenda for discussion. So far, I haven’t found anything of relevance in the Public Records Act. What are your thoughts?

    March 23, 2016

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    Cases Press Release

    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 […]

    April 8, 2010

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    CPRA School Records

    Request for public information not honored

    I made a request for public information four months ago from my local school district and I have not received the requested information. Please advise.

    April 28, 2016

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    CPRA

    Request for sheriff’s homeless policy leads to trouble

    […] by the County Sheriff in conjunction with numerous other county agencies. The Sheriff's Department responded that they had "been unable to locate responsive documents and as such cannot comply therewith." In addition, the sheriff's department then engaged in retaliatory intimidation, sending a deputy to question the person whose name appears on the request for information.

    March 30, 2010

  • Latest News

    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

  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    School Board Meetings without Notice

    […] meeting, investigation conducted by a factfinder or arbitrator. (d) An Executive session of the public school employer or between the public school employer and its designated representative for the purpose of discussing its position regarding any matter within the scope of representation and instructing its designated representatives. To The extent the meetings you describe […]

    March 18, 2010

  • Latest News

    FAC Partners with MuckRock to Expand Reach of Open Records, Meetings Database

    […] Snyder. "MuckRock is providing a fantastic 21st-century solution to ensure anyone can simply and easily file public records requests. Hopefully, our resource will make it even easier for people to solicit information from their government." In addition to their online tools for seeking public records, MuckRock also provides a repository of hundreds of thousands […]

    May 29, 2018

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    Blog Cases

    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, […]

    May 16, 2012