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How does the Brown Act Apply to ‘Ad Hoc’ Versus ‘Standing’ Committees?

[…] reviewing all issues related to parks and recreation in the city on an ongoing basis: This committee is a standing committee which is subject to the Act’s requirements because it has continuing jurisdiction over issues related to parks and recreation in the city. Advisory committee comprised of two city councilmembers for the purpose of […]

April 14, 2022
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Public Records

FAC Intervenes After a Man Was Refused Bodyworn Camera Footage of His Own Arrest by Redding Police

FAC sent the following letter to Redding City Attorney Christian Curtis urging the city to release the bodyworn camera footage of the arrest of Daniel Maher. Maher and Shasta Scout requested the footage of his arrest only for the city to deny it, in likely violation of the California Public Records Act.
- Government Transparency and Accountability
November 25, 2025
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First Amendment

FAC Represents Newsroom After Shasta Elections Official Illegally Excludes its Journalists from Media Release Distribution

FAC represents Shasta Scout, a nonprofit newsroom in Redding, in demanding Shasta County's top election official, Registrar of Voters Clinton Curtis, restore the newsroom's journalists to its press release distribution list. Curtis told Shasta Scout he did not think it was a "legitimate" newsroom due to its "political lean" and nonprofit status. FAC’s letter notes […]
- Press Freedom
October 9, 2025
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We’re Hiring: Press Education Manager

*Applications are no longer being accepted* The First Amendment Coalition (FAC) is looking for a full-time and fully remote Press Education Manager to lead the vision and day-to-day management of our journalist education programs. This is a chance to play a key role at a leading California nonprofit that does important work to support […]

January 22, 2025
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Newsgathering

SPLC, FAC urge Stanford to call for DA to decline charges against student journalist

Update: On January 20, Levin responded to FAC and SPLC and confirmed that Gohill will not face discipline by the university. See coverage in the San Francisco Chronicle. FAC and the Student Law Press Center called on Stanford President Jonathan Levin to confirm student journalist Dilan Gohill will not face disciplinary action by the university […]
- Press Freedom
January 17, 2025
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Public Meetings

Proposed San Diego Board of Supervisor Public Meeting Rules Violate First Amendment, FAC Warns

The San Diego Board of Supervisors proposed a handful of amendments to its Meeting Management Rules that would limit public participation and stifle free speech at public meetings in violation of the First Amendment and/or the Brown Act. FAC sent the following letter detailing why these proposed changes should be reconsidered.
- Free Expression
December 12, 2024
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Public Meetings

FAC Protests Removal of Press and Public from Shasta County Board of Supervisors Meeting
- Government Transparency and Accountability
November 19, 2024
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First Amendment Public Meetings

FAC Urges Merced School Board President to Stop Threatening Speech Rights

[…] Allen Brooks, president of the Merced City School District Board of Education, to stop making statements that threaten the fundamental rights of civic participation and free expression. For more than two and a half years, the board’s president has regularly warned members of the public that "derogatory comments against district employees or others made […]
- Free Expression
October 28, 2024
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Our Fight for Government Transparency, a Free Press, and Free Expresssion

May 1, 2024
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Governor Brown decides fate of open-government bills

[…] format. Governor Brown vetoed this bill, introduced by Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco). The bill’s original intent was to require agencies to use standardized and searchable formats for documents released in response to record requests. However, the Assembly Appropriations Committee had converted the bill to authorization for a year-long feasibility study to be conducted […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Press Freedom
October 12, 2012