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2023 Impact Report
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 […]October 12, 2012
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FAC’s letter to Gov Brown, urging veto of SB 1300
[…] 1300, which requires oil companies to file reports on scheduled shutdowns, typically for maintenance, of their refinery facilities. We have no objection to the bill’s substantive regulatory requirements. However, we object strongly to procedural requirements that will seriously curtail public access rights under the Public Records Act. Significantly, those procedural requirements are not integral […]September 17, 2014
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FAC, ACLU, Fresnoland Demand Fresno City Council Stop Secret Budget Negotiations
[…] city council with continuing authority over a given issue, such as the budget, public safety, or land use, must hold open and public meetings based on an agenda posted in advance, with opportunity for the public to comment on any matter before the committee. If a committee takes on the same issue year after […]September 6, 2023
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FAC Opposes Threats to a Free Press by City of Cypress
[…] outlet that recently reported the results of two votes from a closed session meeting of council members about an ongoing lawsuit. Contained in item 17 of the agenda for the city council meeting today is the following: "the Event-News Enterprise’s decision to report on confidential closed session votes is regrettable and inconsistent with ethical […]September 25, 2023
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FAC Opposes AB 817, a Bill Weakening the Brown Act’s Public Meeting Protections
May 14, 2024
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Shame on Inglewood. Using copyright as a muzzle, the city files suit to censor a local critic
[…] City Council meetings. The city’s lawsuit seeks damages, an injunction barring further airing of the videos on YouTube, plus payment by Teixeira of the city’s attorney’s fees---all for having the audacity to criticize his local government’s policies and leadership. Inglewood’s legal theory? That by incorporating into his YouTube videos segments of the official recordings […]May 29, 2015
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Secrecy surrounding public employees’ pay & benefits makes mockery of democracy
[…] come before them---issues that dwarf all others by orders of magnitude---those same elected officials revert to total secrecy. I am referring to decisions on compensation and benefits for public employees--which, for most cities and counties in California, consume north of 80 percent of all government spending. Regardless of one’s party affiliation or views about […]June 24, 2015
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Consumers blindsided by secret settlements in hi-tech patent lawsuits
[…] Peter Scheer—Apple recently announced that it had reached a global settlement of its patent disputes with HTC, a producer of smartphones using Android, the Google-owned operating system for phones and tablets that compete head-on with Apple’s phones and tablets. Although this settlement, covering some 50 lawsuits, will have a direct impact--almost certainly painful--on millions […]December 23, 2012
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Union representatives in closed labor negotiations
[…] ask the teachers' union president to come into our closed session under labor negotiations to give us a report only on what is being negotiated? My reason for this is that we do not receive all the information from our negotiation team for the district so we are looking for a way to have […]June 14, 2009