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    Brown Act

    Can a School Board Restrict Recording of a Meeting to a Designated Area?

    […] on a case-by-case basis) is disrupting the proceedings. However, to our knowledge, this precise question has not been addressed by a California court, so we cannot say for certain how a reviewing court would interpret this provision of the law. Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP is general counsel for the First Amendment Coalition and […]

    February 17, 2021

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    CPRA

    Toll Road Agency Says There is No 14-day Requirement for Responding to CPRA Requests

    The Transportation Corridor Agency (TCA) that manages toll roads has sent me an email saying that there is no 14-day requirement for responding to a California Public Records Act request.  Also, if a legal matter was brought is it customary for the government agency to pay for attorney’s fees?

    January 20, 2021

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    CPRA Police Records

    Police Denied My Request For An Incident Report

    If you made a Public Records Act request for the incident report, the police agency here should have cited a valid exemption that applies to the report that would justify its nondisclosure.  If the police have not cited any exemption, you might want to write back and press them to justify their withholding.  That […]

    January 4, 2020

  • Posts

    CA Senate Bill 1421 Would Bring Desperately Needed Transparency to Police Misconduct Files

    […] including officer-involved shootings and instances where police officers have lied under oath. Law enforcement officers are alone among public employees in California (at least those who work for agencies subject to the California Public Records Act) in being able to keep secret even confirmed allegations of misconduct. For everyone except police officers, investigations into […]

    April 9, 2018

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    Blog

    The SEC should go forward with a rule requiring corporations to publicly disclose their campaign contributions.

    […] (by liberals) and credited (by conservatives) with unleashing anonymous political contributions by corporations? Republicans embraced the decision, which, while permitting independent corporate spending, also emphasized the need for disclosure as a check on corporate influence. Now, however, conservatives support only one-half of the Citizens United ruling: their commitment to the principle of disclosure, it […]

    May 14, 2013

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    Blog FAC News

    Remembering FAC Founding Father and California Journalism Giant, Frank McCulloch

    […] McCulloch, the son of a pioneer Nevada ranch family who served as a combat war correspondent and led major American news organizations, distinguishing himself as an icon for a free press, died on May 14, 2018. He was 98. His family was close by at a Santa Rosa, CA, nursing facility where he had […]

    May 31, 2018

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    Blog

    New 1st amendment case poses existential threat to public employee unions

    […] bargaining rights or other outpourings of voter resentment. No, the new existential threat facing government unions comes from . . . the First Amendment. In a scarcely- noticed lawsuit filed Monday in federal district court in Los Angeles, a conservative nonprofit, the Center for Individual Rights, claims that California’s system for collecting union dues […]

    May 2, 2013

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    Cases Press Release

    FAC Urges California Supreme Court to Require Transparency in Clemency Proceedings

    […] little information about what’s being put before the court. Today, in response to the court’s invitation to submit comments on a proposed administrative order governing a process for these records, FAC asked the justices to ensure the process follows existing rules of court and the common law presumption of openness, which reject default sealing. […]

    January 13, 2021

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    Cases Press Release

    FAC Fights Secret Hearings in Death Penalty Case

    Motion by lawyers for Armando Cruz, charged in rape and murder of 13-year-old Bakersfield girl, seeks to block press and public from all pretrial hearings The First Amendment Coalition is fighting to ensure hearings in a Bakersfield death penalty case remain open to the press and public. FAC’s brief, now on file in Kern […]

    September 28, 2020