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    Have a legal question on FOI issues? Ask us. FREE!

    […] consultation service. FAC’s Legal Hotline, available on our website, is staffed by top media lawyers who will answer your questions about freedom-of-information, open-meeting laws, First Amendment protections for journalists, bloggers and ordinary citizens, and other open-government issues. I’m writing because FAC wants you to use this completely FREE service. FAC is a nonprofit. Our […]

    August 6, 2011

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    Free the Hewlett-Packard 5!

    […] California Attorney General Bill Lockyer wasted no time in filing criminal charges against former Hewlett-Packard Chairwoman Patricia Dunn, H-P's senior legal counsel and three outside security consultants for alleged crimes committed in the course of an over-zealous effort to plug leaks in the H-P boardroom. Lockyer's haste has nothing to do with the urgency […]

    June 2, 2009

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    FAC Sues LAPD Over Failure to Release Bodycam Recordings from Protest

    […] showing the Los Angeles Police Department’s violent treatment of protesters who demonstrated peacefully outside the official residence of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on December 6, 2020. For more than 18 months, the LAPD has refused to turn over the recordings of the incident that left protesters badly injured, despite a landmark police transparency […]

    July 6, 2022

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    FAC Sues CA Attorney General to Force Disclosure of Police Misconduct Files

    The First Amendment Coalition (FAC) filed suit today against California Attorney General Xavier Becerra for failing to comply with the state’s new, landmark police transparency law. The suit, filed in San Francisco Superior Court, seeks the release of records regarding serious police misconduct — records that all state and local agencies are now required […]

    February 14, 2019

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    FAC Names Suzanne Ito as Communications Director

    […] FAC Executive Director David Snyder. "Our work has grown and diversified steadily over the past few years. Suzanne’s deep experience with our issues makes her ideally suited for this role." Most recently, as the Director of Communications at the Policing Project at the NYU School of Law, Ito worked closely with the organization’s litigation […]

    December 9, 2022

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    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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    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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    FAC Forces Disclosure of More Documents From CA Supreme Court ‘Secret Docket’

    […] fraud—in November 2018. Under the California Constitution, the governor was required to seek the state Supreme Court’s approval to grant pardons and clemency to any "twice-convicted felon." For decades, the governor and the high court had treated all of the paperwork filed with these requests as confidential and sealed from public view. The process, […]

    March 21, 2019

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    EFF and ACLU Staffers Win 2017 FAC Award for Work on Public Access to Police Surveillance Records

    […] Open Government Award are Jennifer Lynch and Dave Maass of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Peter Bibring of the American Civil Liberties Union-Southern California (ACLU), selected for their joint work to bring accountability and transparency to the use of automated license plate readers (ALPRs) by police and other entities. This year’s award recipients, […]

    November 27, 2017