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It’s Sunshine Week. Here’s how to get involved.

Join us for Sunshine Week events and beyond Join us for two special events highlighting the importance of a more open and accountable government, with a focus on the unique challenges posed by the pandemic. For Sunshine Week 2021, we are teaming up with the News Leaders Association to take you inside the fight […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
March 15, 2021
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If hard-won court victory against Prop 8 is tossed out because of “standing” defect, you can thank Jerry Brown

[…] victory before federal district court judge Vaughn Walker was meant to be the first stage of a legal strategy culminating in a US Supreme Court decision establishing-- for the entire country--a constitutional right of gay marriage. But Judge Walker's decision striking down Prop 8 may never be considered by the federal court of appeals, […]

August 18, 2010
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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
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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 […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
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 […]
- Press Freedom
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 […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
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 […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
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 […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
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 […]
- Press Freedom
May 17, 2019