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    FAC News Press Release

    Journalists Thomas Peele & Caroline Titus named 2016 FAC Award Winners

    […] stories that advance government transparency and  "the people’s right to know." The winners are journalists Thomas Peele and Caroline Titus. The following is from the award citations for each: THOMAS PEELE is an investigative reporter, teacher and open government advocate who filed hundreds of public records requests this year to build a database of the 944 […]

    November 29, 2016

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    CPRA School Records

    School District Delays CPRA Response Beyond the Hearing Date For Which Documents Are Needed

    […] information and insight to aid a special education student with whom the districts are currently engaged in due-process hearings. I received an initial reply extending their reply for 15 days. In an effort of good faith, I did not protest the extension. Now I have received a second response, again extending their deadline for […]

    February 10, 2021

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    Brown Act CPRA

    Water agency contractors’ calculations “trade secret”?

    A county water agency has hired a consultant for a major capital project and has released the feasibility study done by the consultant but has not responded for a request to review the consulting contract itself. This isn’t academic: the agency asserts that the consultants’ excel spreadsheet originals containing the actual cell-by-cell math calculations […]

    January 16, 2012

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    Cases Press Release

    FAC Moves—Again—To Unseal Records From CA Supreme Court “Secret Docket”

    […] prevents the public from seeing a crucial aspect of criminal justice in this state." FAC’s motion does not question that the woman, Susan H. Burton, is eligible for a pardon. The motion rather challenges the practice of automatically sealing pardon-request records–a practice that clearly violates California law. Under the California Rules of Court, the […]

    May 11, 2019

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    Brown signs SB 1300, but calls on Legislature to fix public access issues

    […] law does not authorize petroleum refineries to collect attorney’s fees from individuals or organizations seeking those records." Hancock, in a letter to Jerry Brown, acknowledged the need for "additional language" to "avoid any misinterpretation" and said it is her "intent to introduce legislation next session" to do that. The problematic amendments to SB 1300 […]

    October 17, 2014

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    CPRA

    Is a school caretakers’s security camera subject to CPRA?

    […] records.  Gov’t Code § 6253.1.  Additionally, if the agency refuses to provide a certain record it must cite any exemptions it is claiming and describe how the exemption applies to the records.  Gov’t Code § 6253(c).  The challenge with any PRA request is ensuring that it is broad enough to capture all the records […]

    September 10, 2016

  • Latest News

    Cases Press Release

    Journalist Sues City of Fresno for Withholding Public Records About Taser Use that Caused Severe Burns

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 21, 2023 Contact: fac@firstamendmentcoalition.org SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — Brian Howey, an Oakland-based investigative journalist, has sued the City of Fresno under the California Public Records Act (CPRA) for the city’s refusal to release use-of-force records regarding the death of Michael Sanders, who was tased multiple times by Fresno police […]

    April 21, 2023

  • Latest News

    Cases Press Release

    FAC Moves to Unseal Search Warrants in Illegal Police Raid on SF Journalist

    The First Amendment Coalition (FAC) today filed a motion to unseal the San Francisco Police Department’s applications for two search warrants in the case of journalist Bryan Carmody, whose home and office police raided last week,sparking national outrage from press advocates, civil libertarians and many others. Why two judges authorized those warrants—which appear to […]

    May 17, 2019

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    CPRA

    Access to names of applicants to official positions

    The City Council will soon be considering the applications filed for three openings on two commissions. I am trying to obtain the names of the applicants and I am being met with some resistance. Should I have access to the names?

    June 14, 2009