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    First Amendment Newsgathering

    Media Leak Investigations and the First Amendment

    […] ills in society," Snyder said. U.S. Justice Department guidelines allow federal officials to seek journalists’ records in some extraordinary circumstances, but they are expected to provide advance notice to a news organization, which allows newsrooms a chance to oppose seizure or try to limit the scope. When asked about the guidelines, Rottman said that […]

    August 13, 2024

  • Pages

    2025 Impact Report

    FAC was in court fighting for our rights, training journalists on accessing public records, and pushing back against threats to press freedom and free expression.

    April 2, 2026

  • Latest News

    Blog

    I Sued My University for Public Records. Here’s What I Learned.

    I shouldn’t have had to sue my own university for public records. I’m a journalist for Mustang News, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo’s student-run newspaper. In my time here, I’ve covered unpaid overtime for student workers during orientation. I reported on Joseph Castro’s appointment to Cal Poly. I investigated how Cal Poly approached sexual […]

    March 20, 2025

  • Handbooks

    Guide to the Bagley-Keene Open Meeting Act

    […] found on the Legislature’s website. The California Attorney General’s Office Guide to the Bagley-Keene Act, updated in 2023, can be found on this page. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Open Government Guide for California can be found on this page. The above links are to external resources. While we hope they […]

    September 10, 2024

  • Posts

    FAC urges ‘NO’ vote on San Francisco’s Prop E

    […] of at least 50 requesters) to dictate the sequence for city Board and Commission consideration of items on their meeting agendas, and, further, to demand that specific agenda items be taken up at a designated time at public meetings.  This  favors organized groups over the voices of individual citizens. And it is unworkable.  It […]

    September 9, 2015

  • Posts

    FAC Opposes California Bills that Would Reduce Face-to-Face Accountability

    […] sounding the alarms over legislation that would make California government less open and accountable by chipping away at our state's open-meetings laws. Los Angeles Times: It's time for California's public officials to return to work. In person. Mercury News: Stop Two Bay Area Legislators' Assault on Open Government Orange County Register: Don't Let Pols […]

    August 21, 2023

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    Cases Press Release

    FAC and Local Community Group Sue San Jose Over Secret Negotiations With Google

    […] produce records under public records laws." WPUSA deputy executive director Maria Noel Fernandez said the public shouldn’t be left in the dark when it comes to plans for Google’s large campus—which will hold up to 20,000 employees—given what it might do to the city’s housing crisis, homelessness, eviction rates, and the cost of living. […]

    November 13, 2018

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    Blog

    California AG Xavier Becerra and the Thick Blue Wall of Police Secrecy

    […] letter from the Attorney General issuinga not-so-veiled threatof "legal action" if the journalists did not return the list. The Attorney General’s letter threatened: "You are hereby on notice that the unauthorized receiptor possessionof [the list of convicted cops] is a misdemeanor" (italics original), and it cited to California Penal Code section 11143. In short, […]

    March 6, 2019