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Equal Justice Society Criticizes CFAC Suit against State Bar for records on affirmative action.

[…] asked to provide personal information on the Bar’s promise that it would be used only for specific and limited purposes: to determine whether an applicant met the requirements to sit for the Bar and for the Bar’s own internal studies. This express limited written consent does not authorize the Bar to give this highly […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 3, 2009
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Candidates disclose tax returns because media demand them. Why not use same strategy for campaign contributions?

[…] highly protective of confidentiality. It has everything to do with citizens' expectations, created by a demanding press, for disclosure. Journalists' unremitting demands over the years, not legal requirements, have established the political norm, now a rite of electoral passage, of disclosing candidates' tax returns. This norm of disclosure, however, is conspicuously absent in the […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
August 25, 2012
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Brown signs anti-sunshine bill, setting up 1st Amdt battle. Do labor rights trump democracy?

[…] law. Local governments that adopt measures to shed light on collective bargaining with their unions—-and only those local governments—- will be subject, under the law, to new requirements for outside contracting that are so onerous, inflexible and costly that affected cities and counties won’t be able to function. Accordingly, they will have no choice […]

October 27, 2015
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Bert Robinson, veteran reporter, editor and open government advocate joins FAC Board

We are pleased to welcome Bert Robinson to the FAC Board of Directors. Robinson is managing editor of content for the Bay Ara News Group overseeing the San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times and Oakland Tribune. "Bert is a life-long newspaper man having worked for the Mercury News since graduating from the Columbia […]

January 5, 2013
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A close look at Google’s handling of governments’ censorship demands

[…] of continuous defamation against a man and his family. Google's Transparency Reports not only make the company more accountable to its customers, but it puts governments on notice that their censorship demands to Google will be revealed to the world--and not least to their own citizens. Will shaming work to protect free expression on […]

April 26, 2013
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FAC, ACLU Oppose Temecula School Board’s Attempt to Throw Out Public Interest Lawsuit

Temecula Valley school board members attempted to get a lawsuit challenging their policies that ban the teaching of "critical race theory" and other subjects dismissed under an anti-SLAPP statute. CLOSED
- Free Expression
January 18, 2024
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Purported Shasta County Media Policy Threatens Press Freedom, FAC Writes
- Press Freedom
July 30, 2024
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CPRA Police Records

CHP said I could view dashboard video, but all my requests have been denied

[…] I am certain that this video and audio will be incriminating to the officer. I expect that they will destroy the video soon. Is there anything that I can do to get someone outside their agency to go in and obtain the video for me without giving them notice so they do not destroy it?

November 12, 2014
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Court Records

Entitlement to court records

[…] get court records from the Richmond court. When I asked to get the records from my case the clerk said that I could not get any records until I put in my appeal. I also tried to put in a written declaration form and was told that it was too late. Can you help me?

June 14, 2009
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Court response time to CPRA

[…] be the typical response time on the day a request is received for a criminal complaint? The California Public Records Act says 10 days but upon written notice an additional 14 days if the request is voluminous ?6253(c) Does this time limit apply for requests sent by mail?I have typically received responses within 3 […]

June 14, 2009