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Real outrage is that surveillance of AP reporters’ phone calls was probably legal

[…] who had access to the classified information leaked to AP's reporters. Also, did the Justice Department obtain specific judicial authorization to subpoena the AP's phone records without notice to AP--and, if so, did the government have ample justification for keeping AP in the dark, thereby preventing it from having its day in court to […]
- Press Freedom
May 20, 2013
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Reader-comments sections of news websites needn’t be cesspools. Editors should EDIT comments as they would letters-to-the-editor.

[…] libelous or harmful. Injured parties can sue the authors of those online comments, but not the newspaper. The newspaper is shielded even if it has been given notice that statements in its Comment section are false and it refuses to remove them. But newspapers are equally protected if they act responsibly, screening comments or […]

March 5, 2010
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Obama should just say ‘No’ to aides who, worried about FOIA, say he must give up beloved Blackberry

[…] to the New York Times, because the prodigious digital record it creates would be subject to public scrutiny through Freedom of Information Act requests and other disclosure requirements. The Blackberry didn’t pose such problems for Obama as a US Senator because Congress, characteristically, exempted itself from the FOIA. Although the executive branch is often […]

June 3, 2009
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Now Hiring: FAC Senior Staff Attorney / Legal Director

[…] of litigation in state and federal court, including actions where FAC staff attorneys are sole counsel as well as actions where FAC is represented by outside counsel. For candidates with at least 5 years of experience, this will be a Senior Staff Attorney position with the ability to advance to a director position; candidates […]

October 14, 2021
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First Amendment Coalition and Knock LA motion to unseal search warrant

With Knock LA, FAC filed a motion to unseal the search warrant records related to the September 2020 arrests of protesters amid a demonstration over Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department’s killing of Black cyclist Dijon Kizzee. CLOSED
- Government Transparency and Accountability
August 10, 2022
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Maybe summoning the press before Parliament isn’t such a bad idea

[…] secrecy, their main response has been not to foster one, but to vilify and criminalize the whistleblowers like Snowden whose leaks put that conversation on the national agenda. That’s hypocritical, in my view. But what about the position of our news media? Shouldn’t they be part of this supposed conversation? Apparently not. My guess […]
- Press Freedom
December 18, 2013
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Leak investigation of Fox News’ Rosen crosses red line by obtaining journalist’s email contents, not just data

[…] security arena, at any rate), a closer look suggests the government included these allegations not to set the stage for prosecuting Rosen, but, rather, to satisfy the requirements of the First Amendment Privacy Protection Act (42 USC section 2000aa & b). That law effectively forbids search warrants for "materials" belonging to journalists except when […]
- Press Freedom
May 29, 2013
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Leading gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown need to show voters, by their own actions, that they are committed to transparency in government. Promises won’t cut it.

[…] demonstration of their commitment to government transparency. All politicians are supportive of open-government "in principle;" the question is whether they are committed in practice. The best test for that is a candidate's willingness, before an election, to disclose information about himself that is not legally required to be disclosed--but that voters nonetheless want, with […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
March 9, 2010
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Leading Constitutional Law Scholar Erwin Chemerinsky Joins FAC Board

[…] cases, including First Amendment challenges, at the U.S. Supreme Court. He is the author of 11 books, including "We the People: A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the Twenty-First Century," "Closing the Courthouse Doors: How Your Constitutional Rights Became Unenforceable" and "Free Speech on Campus." He is the author of more than 200 […]

May 7, 2020
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Public Records

Shelton v. Napa Valley Unified School District

Representing freelance reporter Holly McDede, FAC filed a motion to intervene in Shelton v. Napa Valley Unified School District, a "reverse CPRA" lawsuit that seeks to prevent the release of public records regarding a former public school teacher’s alleged sexual abuse of students.
- Government Transparency and Accountability
July 8, 2024