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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 […]

    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. […]

    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 […]

    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 […]

    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 […]

    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 […]

    January 4, 2017

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    Honoring Reb Rebele (1930-2023)

    Rowland "Reb" Rebele delivers an In Memoriam at the 2019 California Press Foundation Winter Meeting in San Francisco. Photo: Courtesy of California Press Foundation

    November 30, 2023