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FAC sues Auburn for council members’ business emails sent from private email accounts. Suit also challenges email deletion policy.

[…] in Placer County Superior Court. FAC is joined in the case by Victoria Connolly, an Auburn resident and community activist. She and FAC submitted public record requests for emails to and among Auburn Council members dealing with a local ballot initiative to convert Auburn to a "charter city." The locally controversial ballot issue was […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 11, 2012
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FAC Seeks to Unseal Gov. Brown’s Request to Pardon Embattled Former State Senator

[…] that leaves citizens in the dark about a matter of important public concern. The records currently hidden from public view would show the factual and legal basis for Governor Brown’s effort to essentially erase the conviction of a public figure. They would also shed light on an otherwise opaque process—of particular interest for this […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
November 20, 2018
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FAC Receives Three-Year, $375,000 Grant From Jonathan Logan Family Foundation

[…] over the next three years to support FAC’s work defending free speech and the public’s right to know. "FAC is grateful to the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation for this vital and substantial gift, which provides us with a solid foundation from which to expand our work," said FAC Executive Director David Snyder. "The fact […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Press Freedom
April 20, 2018
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FAC partners with Online News Association to assist digital journalists

The First Amendment Coalition is delighted to announce a partnership with the Online News Association to provide ONA members—-digital journalists working primarily for digital media platforms—with legal help on First Amendment and other media law matters through FAC’s Legal Hotline service. The Legal Hotline is a legal consultation service available on FAC’s website. Users […]

May 19, 2016
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FAC names free speech award winners–and one loser

The First Amendment Coalition, a California-based non-profit public interest group, has named the 2009 recipients of its awards for service in the cause of free speech, open government and the public's right to know. In contrast, the Coalition also has presented its "Darkness Award," given in recognition of conduct that thwarts freedom of speech. […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Press Freedom
October 22, 2009
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FAC Helps Defeat Effort by School District to Recover Nearly $500K in Attorneys Fees From Records Requester

[…] attempt to argue Ms. Brazil had done. FAC and the ACLU were joined in their amicus brief by Californians Aware, the California News Publishers Association, the Center for Investigative Reporting, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Los Angeles Times and the McClatchy Company. Here's yesterday’s order And the briefing filed by FAC and the ACLU […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
April 11, 2018
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FAC Forces Disclosure of CA Gov. Brown’s Request to Pardon Former State Sen. Wright

[…] 18, requiring the Governor to make legal arguments as to why the Wright file should be confidential--and to publicly file any documents that had no legal basis for sealing. Gov. Brown’s office did so yesterday, and included in its public filing numerous previously undisclosed records, including correspondence between the Governor’s office and the Board […]

January 4, 2019
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FAC Again Prevails in Unsealing Search Warrants Executed on SF Journalist Bryan Carmody

Three San Francisco judges on Friday ordered the public release of sealed applications for three search warrants executed on freelance journalist Bryan Carmody —for his home, office and phone. The release of these materials should help answer a central question in the Carmody saga: how the San Francisco Police Department was able to obtain […]
- Press Freedom
August 5, 2019
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Digital strip-search: Case of lost iPhone prototype shows the danger of using search warrant to seize journalists’ information

BY PETER SCHEER---Search warrants have always been a blunt instrument for finding evidence of crime. Think of television cop shows from the 70s and 80s: A police search of an apartment for drugs was, de facto, a license to ransack all closets, cabinets and dressers. A warrant to seize a letter or other specific […]
- Press Freedom
April 30, 2010
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Did NBC secretly hand over the Trump grope tape to the Wash Post?

[…] had it aired the tape itself, it might have had legal exposure that the Post could avoid. How so? Because NBC might have been sued by Trump for invasion of privacy (under a California statute requiring all parties to consent to the taping of a conversation) or under some sort of breach of contract […]

October 18, 2016