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    Your right to COVID-19 outbreak data

    […] matter of law, notwhim or unsubstantiated hunch." Read our full letter to the California Supreme Court. And find more about the case here. Thank you, as always, for your interest in our work. David Snyder Executive Director P.S. Did you hear? We launched our first-ever $1million campaign—theFAC for Allcampaign. We’realready 80% of the way […]

    September 2, 2021

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    Will All Judges Who Have Viewed Porn Please Stand Up?

    […] constitutionally protected. Kozinski has the right, under the First Amendment, to possess pornographic materials on his own computer. It is a right that we all have, and for good reason: in a free society, government has no business regulating private choices about what movies to see, books to read or photos to view. Although […]

    June 3, 2009

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    What it Costs to Fight Government Secrecy | A Message from David Snyder

    […] thousands of pages of previously secret records. We’ve armed journalists and lawyers with knowledge and expertise to defend free-press rights. And we’ve been there, on the spot, for hundreds of journalists in need of help, from the smallest community news outlets to those serving audiences around the globe. We’re doing much more of all […]

    November 22, 2021

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    Victory: California Appeal Court Orders Records Unsealed

    […] make the required statutory findings, but because less restrictive means exist to protect respondent’s private medical information and the identity of third parties," Justice Victoria Chavez wrote for the panel. As part of FAC's long-standing commitment to enforcing the public's right to know, it teamed up with EFF and First Amendment scholar Eugene Volokh […]

    April 15, 2020

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    Victory for Transparency: CA Supreme Court Rejects Police Union Effort to Gut Landmark Police Transparency Law

    In a significant victory for government transparency and accountability, the California Supreme Court today denied a police union’s last-minute effort to undermine the effectiveness of a new, landmark police transparency law, rejecting the union’s effort to make the law (SB 1421) apply only to records created after January 1, 2019. The First Amendment Coalition […]

    January 2, 2019

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    Time to shed light on CalPERS’ private equity investments

    […] boost their overall rates of return. Financial experts disagree about whether this strategy (also popular among college and university endowments) is sound or poses too much risk for "defined benefit" pensions promising specific benefit payments upon retirement. (Think Social Security.) Regardless of the outcome of that debate, there is no debating that private equity […]

    July 15, 2014

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    The Powerful anti-SOPA protests show why corporations, too, need First Amendment rights

    […] delivery of advertising, or Amazon on book publishing--to name just a few. But in their recent protests against anti-piracy legislation pending in Congress--the SOPA  bill---high-tech firms demonstrated, for the first time, their awesome capacity for "creative destruction" of a political establishment that they see as hostile to their interests. Literally within hours of Wikipedia […]

    January 20, 2012

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    The ongoing push for police transparency 

    An update on accessing police misconduct and use-of-force records in California For decades, California was one of the most secretive states about policing, concealing virtually all records about police misconduct. After sustained public outcry over police brutality and biased policing, the state began piercing this veil of secrecy. Three laws that have taken effect […]

    May 18, 2022