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  • Latest News

    Cases Press Release

    FAC Fights Unprecedented Effort by School District to Recover Nearly $500K From Records Requester

    […] to learn about their government. Newark Unified has asked the Alameda County Superior Court in California to order Elizabeth Brazil to pay the school district $449, 317.60 for time the district’s attorneys spent litigating Brazil’s effort to obtain records under the California Public Records Act. If the school district were to prevail on this […]

    February 6, 2018

  • Latest News

    Blog Cases

    FAC Defends Press Freedom in Marin Photographer’s Case

    […] and should never have been able to get a search warrant. FAC, joined by the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, put authorities on notice of Portje’s status as a journalist days after his arrest, and yet police got a judge to sign a warrant. (Read more news coverage in the […]

    January 4, 2022

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    Press Release

    Coalition Urges Compliance with California Public Records Law Amid COVID-19 Crisis

    […] San Gabriel Tribune v. Superior Court (1983) 143 Cal.App.3d 762, 771-72.) Moreover, the Governor’s recent emergency orders do not waive any of the California Public Records Act’s requirements.   While we acknowledge the extraordinary stresses that government agencies face right now, we urge all government agencies to comply with the California Public Records Act and […]

    March 23, 2020

  • Latest News

    Blog FAC News

    Attorney Judy Alexander Joins FAC as Special Access Litigation Counsel

    […] Records Act, the Ralph M. Brown Act, the federal Freedom of Information Act and the First Amendment. While litigation has always been a big part of FAC's agenda, the addition of Alexander gives FAC the capacity to file more lawsuits challenging unlawful obstacles to access at the local level. "We are delighted to have […]

    March 9, 2010

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    Blog

    A stunning end to the media’s 20-year losing streak in high court access cases.

    […] distinguishable, condoned limits on release of employee salaries. In the California Supreme Court the Oakland unions argued that public employee salary data are: Exempt from the disclosure requirements of the Public Records Act; rendered confidential by a separate law concerning police personnel files; and protected from disclosure by California's constitutional right of privacy. But […]

    June 3, 2009

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    2007 CFAC Free Speech & Open Government Assembly

    Call for Nominations for Beacon and Darkness Awards The California First Amendment Coalition is seeking nominations for its annual Beacon and Darkness awards, given in recognition of exceptional efforts, during 2006 and 2007, to advance and defend open-government and freedom of speech (Beacon Awards), and the opposite: exceptional efforts to curtail public access and […]

    June 3, 2009

  • Asked and Answered

    CPRA

    Response times to CPRA requests

    I served a PRA request on the district on April 6. The schools were closed for the week of April 9-12 for spring break, and the 10th was a district holiday. During 9-12, the district offices were "closed to the public" but numerous employees, including administrators, were working. On April 10, a response was […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA First Amendment Newsgathering Police Records

    Investigative files and the CPRA

    […] a book about a child abduction from a few years back. The minor child was later found dead, and the perpetrator recently pleaded guilty and was sentenced for the crime in a California court. The case is closed. Now, the investigating police agency is refusing to answer my calls or put me in touch […]

    June 14, 2009

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    CPRA

    Individual accessing results on their own background check

    […] section 1031(d) provides that "peace officers" shall "[b]e of good moral character, as determined by a thorough background investigation."Section 1031.1 of the Government Code sets out the requirements facilitating this background investigation.In connection with conducting this investigation, law enforcement agencies often times require that the applicant waive any right they might have to review […]

    June 14, 2009