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    California Supreme Court Stops Cities From Charging Steep Fees for Video Redactions

    The California Supreme Court today issued an opinion preventing government agencies from charging the public for editing and compiling police body camera footage and other electronic records before the records are released. The First Amendment Coalition and the California News Publishers Association filed an amicus brief in the case, National Lawyers Guild v. City […]

    May 28, 2020

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    California Reporting Project Wins 2019 FAC Award for Police Accountability Coverage

    […] Area News Group/Southern California News Group, Capital Public Radio, Investigative Studios (of UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program), KPCC/LAist, KQED and the Los Angeles Times to submit requests for records under California’s new police transparency law, Senate Bill 1421, and to share results. The initiative quickly grew, and now includes more than 40 newsrooms that […]

    December 2, 2019

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    Back Talk

    Readers respond to article criticizing anonymous postings Amen. -Mark Baird Alameda CA --- The author reveals to us that his name is Peter Scheer and he works for something called the California First Amendment Coalition. However we do not know who financed and established the organization or whether the author represents a client, or […]

    June 3, 2009

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    Cases

    AP, Bloomberg, CNET, Wired.com, LA Times, CNPA join FAC motion in lost-iPhone case

    […] First Amendment Coalition and major news media have requested the California Court presiding over the Gizmodo/missing iPhone matter to unseal judicial records relating to the warrant issued for the search of an online journalist's home and the seizure of his computer, hard drives and other digital files. The motion to unseal the warrant affidavit […]

    May 6, 2010

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    Blog

    Anonymous speech, although constitutionally protected, is mostly digital graffiti

    Freedom of expression means taking responsibility for what you write. By Peter Scheer A Chinese blogger, defying a government censorship decree, publishes information about the crash of a military transport plane. Another blogger, an Egyptian, posts photos of the scarred body of a teenager who was tortured by Egyptian police. Both bloggers are anonymous. […]

    June 3, 2009

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    FAC News Press Release

    Announcing FAC’s 2014 Free Speech & Open Government Award Winners

    […] in Pennsylvania, who resisted heavy-handed administration interference in editorial decisions; San Francisco Chronicle reporter Jaxon Van Derbeken for tireless and powerful coverage of cozy relationships between PG &E and the state PUC, serious problems in the Bay Bridge construction project and missteps in fire response to the crash of an airliner at San Francisco […]

    December 2, 2014

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    Cases

    Amici Briefs Digest – Sept. 2018

    […] of the website antiwar.com. Our amicus brief argues, in essence, that the lower court’s ruling would open the door to the FBI broadly collecting information about journalists for the mere act of publishing -- just the kind of surveillance prohibited under the Privacy Act. FAC was represented here by Cooley LLP. FAC Joined Amici […]

    September 20, 2018

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    Cases

    Allegation of ‘Conspiracy’ Not Enough to Evade Free-Speech Protections

    […] ruling that a plaintiff may circumvent the anti-SLAPP statute simply by pleading a conclusory assertion that a defendant engaged in speech of public concern is vicariously liable for the unlawful actions of others, absent any allegation or proof that the defendant specifically authorized, directed, or ratified those actions, as required by the First Amendment. […]

    April 20, 2022

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    Blog

    A 1st Amendment Kiss** to the LA Times for coverage of LA schools that empowers parents to hold bureaucrats and politicians accountable

    A big First Amendment Kiss** to the Los Angeles Times and reporters Jason Felch, Jason Song and Doug Smith for their recent stories about LA public schools. The Times applied statistical analysis to seven years of student test scores in order to measure teachers' effectiveness in math and English instruction. Using an outside consultant […]

    August 27, 2010