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First Amendment Coalition v. City of San Diego

[…] "great bodily injury." Press Release: FAC Sues San Diego for Public Records About Controversial Use of Force Against Marcus Evans (6/26/2025) Legal Documents: FAC Request for Judicial Notice (4/23/2026) Declaration of David Loy in Support of FAC's Request for Judicial Notice (4/23/2026) FAC Reply in Support of Motion for Judgment (4/6/2026) City of San […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 26, 2025
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We’re Hiring: Programs Coordinator

*Applications are no longer being accepted* The First Amendment Coalition (FAC) is looking for a full-time Programs Coordinator to support our journalist education initiatives and other programs work. This is a chance to play an essential operational role in an established and growing nonprofit organization in California that is doing meaningful work to ensure […]

February 18, 2025
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Vallejo’s bankruptcy highlights need for transparency in city-union contracts

By Peter Scheer The city of Vallejo has taken the extraordinary step of filing for federal bankruptcy protection. While the financial distress of this San Francisco suburb (population 117,000) is especially acute, its fiscal problems are fundamentally the same as those facing many California cities and counties--and, indeed, the state itself. To the familiar […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 3, 2009
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Transparency coming to police one city at a time

[…] "highly offensive." That language is so vague it could apply to any use of force. Another bill, AB 2533 (by Miguel Santiago, a Democrat), would require advance notice to police of the release of video footage requested under the CPRA. The notice requirement is an invitation to police to file a lawsuit, forcing the […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 24, 2016
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Successful outcome in FAC suit pulls back curtain on “deliberative process”

The First Amendment Coalition has reached a highly favorable settlement in a PRA suit against Marin County for records relating to a stream conservation ordinance. The outcome should serve as a warning to local governments proposing to withhold records on grounds they reflect how official decisions are made. FAC and its co-plaintiff, environmentalist David Schnapf, will receive […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
August 23, 2015
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Secret Docket Revealed: FAC Wins Cal Supreme Court Rulings Unsealing Clemency Files

[…] practices, Newsom and, before him Jerry Brown, submitted these materials to the Court as "confidential." Until FAC intervened, the Court acquiesced to that designation—without following the strict requirements under California law for determining what court records can be sealed from public view. Under the California Rules of Court, the California Constitution and the First […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
September 16, 2019
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SacBee calls for more transparency in compensation agreements with public employee unions

[…] local government labor contract negotiations. You can understand the logic and the urgency behind his idea when you consider the situation in Vallejo. That city is filing for bankruptcy. Why? Local officials approved salary and benefits costs for current employees and retirees that are more than the city can afford. Scheer's point is that […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 2, 2009
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Now Hiring: Development Director

[…] broadest range of engaged and informed communities is essential to the health of our democracy – that the values expressed by the First Amendment provide a blueprint for an inclusive, equitable society and a responsive, accountable government. To that end, FAC educates, advocates and litigates to protect and promote government transparency and First Amendment […]

August 25, 2022
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FAC, SPJ NorCal Announce Efforts to Protect Press Freedom One Year After Raid on Journalist

[…] federal law protects journalists from having to disclose their sources or any unpublished information collected during newsgathering to the government — and prohibits judges from issuing warrants for the search and seizure of such information. In the interceding 12 months, many questions remain unanswered, including whether and how the city will change its policies […]
- Press Freedom
May 12, 2020
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Corporate transparency, long cherished as an essential feature of US capital markets, is giving way to the secrecy of “private equity” deals. Big mistake.

[…] and buying companies that they think are undervalued. The process of "going private," by substituting private investors for public ones, substantially frees these public companies from the requirements of federal securities laws—including the key requirement of disclosure. This effect is not trivial. The alternative universe of private equity now controls approximately 10 percent of […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 2, 2009