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Thanks to AG’s threats to indict press in leak cases, reporters need not rely on 1st Amendment to protect sources. They can take the Fifth.

By Peter Scheer Our Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, has stated publicly that he believes journalists may be prosecuted under federal espionage laws for publishing articles based on leaks of classified information. The comments, in an ABC News interview, were directed at the New York Times (for its disclosures about NSA’s warrantless eavesdropping) and the […]
- Press Freedom
June 2, 2009
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Supremes pass on NYT reporter Risen’s appeal of ruling requiring him to ID sources. This is a good thing.

The US Supreme Court has declined to review a lower court order directing New York Times journalist James Risen to testify about his confidential sources for reporting on secret US efforts to undermine Iran’s nuclear program. Be thankful that the Court took a pass. Although the First Amendment Coalition joined a legal brief urging […]
- Free Expression
June 17, 2014
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Supreme Court’s much-maligned First Amendment decision will, in fact, expand freedom of speech

[…] industries enjoy direct or indirect government subsidies. In the media industry, for example, traditional newspapers are subsidized through sales tax exemptions and restrictions on competition for legal notices; television and radio are subsidized through the federal government's decision to give away scarce spectrum space; the internet is subsidized by limitations on taxation of online […]
- Free Expression
April 5, 2010
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Senator Lieberman calls for misguided internet censorship, but the marketplace of ideas demands that free speech flourish.

Senator Lieberman calls for misguided internet censorship, but the marketplace of ideas demands that free speech flourish. By Kelly Dunleavy On May 19th, Senator Joe Lieberman sent a letter to the CEO of Google, with copies to many major newspapers, demanding that Google remove videos that feature Islamic extremists, or are produced by terrorist […]
- Free Expression
June 3, 2009
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Police Failed to Tell Judge of Bryan Carmody’s Status as Journalist Before Obtaining Warrant, Unsealed Records Show

Police failed to tell the judge who issued a search warrant for Bryan Carmody’s phone that Carmody is a journalist, records unsealed today show—a key omission that helps explain how the San Francisco Police Department was able to obtain warrants for Carmody’s phone, home and office in clear violation of California and federal law. […]
- Press Freedom
July 23, 2019
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NSA surveillance case reflects a growing distrust in the federal judiciary

[…] White House. But on July 20 the unassuming chief judge of the federal district court in San Francisco dropped a judicial bomb. In a suit against AT &T for alleged collaboration in the National Security Agency's warrantless wiretapping and other surveillance programs, Judge Walker rejected the Justice Department's argument that the case had to […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 2, 2009
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Newspaper finance crisis: Nonprofit model no panacea but may be part of the answer

[…] newspapers to operate as nonprofits but clarifies that the ban on political endorsements would apply to such restructured news media. Still, if Congress can make an exemption for Major League Baseball to the anti-trust laws, it could exempt nonprofit news agencies from the prohibitions on endorsing political candidates. Whether as nonprofits or for-profits, newspapers' […]

June 3, 2009
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Newsgathering at CA polling places on election day

[…] Photograph, videotape, or otherwise record a voter entering or exiting a polling place. (b) Any violation of this section is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than 12 months, or in the state prison. Any person who conspires to violate this section is guilty of a felony. (c) For purposes […]
- Press Freedom
June 2, 2009
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FAC News Press Release

NEW name, NEW website, Bigger role, Same mission

[…] borders in an era when information published in, say, Eureka, CA is available instantly and everywhere via the internet. The First Amendment Coalition ("FAC" or "the Coalition" for short) for many years has been involved in legal matters, including federal appellate cases, whose effects extend beyond California’s borders. More recently we have worked to […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
September 22, 2009
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Leaks in the Age of Trump–The Coming Flood

[…] But, again using past as prologue, there is likely to be very little information. As a candidate, Trump displayed two traits that made him virtually impossible for journalists to cover in any conventional way. First, there is Trump’s well-documented talent for sowing informational chaos--making assertions unsupported by facts; assertions directly contradicted by the […]
- Press Freedom
January 4, 2017