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FAC Letter to San Diego Police Officers Union Regarding Cease and Desist Demand to Photojournalist Joe Orellana

[…] Joe Orellana. The SDPOA's letter was in response to a Twitter thread Orellana authored while covering a meeting in which the San Diego Police Department was advocating for the use of smart streetlights and automatic license plate readers before the city's Privacy Advisory Board. In his thread, Orellana noted — as an aside — […]
- Press Freedom
May 4, 2023
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FAC Urges Immediate Dismissal of Charges Against Victorville City Council Member Arrested During Meeting

Contact: [email protected] The First Amendment Coalition is calling for immediate dismissal of charges against Victorville City Council Member Blanca Gomez, who was removed from the council's meeting on February 21, 2023, arrested, and booked into jail. FAC Legal Director David Loy sent a letter to the city council, copied to the San Bernardino County […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
February 24, 2023
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Victory for FAC’s Subpoena Defense Initiative

A reporter for Berkeleyside, a daily news website in Berkeley, California, will not be required to testify in a criminal trial after FAC’s Subpoena Defense Initiative helped secure attorneys to protect the journalist’s rights under the state’s shield law. Emilie Raguso, a senior reporter at the outlet, received a subpoena last month to testify […]
- Press Freedom
January 3, 2018
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SCOTUS is about to bring down hammer on public sector unions. That will be good for democracy, not so good for freedom of speech.

[…] positions with which they may disagree, constitute "coerced speech" in violation of the first amendment. The Court’s prior cases have permitted these arrangements as necessary to pay for collective bargaining activities---which benefit union members and nonmembers alike---subject to the proviso that nonmembers must be able to obtain a refund for overtly political activities, like […]
- Free Expression
January 20, 2016
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Pultizer Prize-winning reporter describes quest for truth in Las Vegas construction deaths

By Donal Brown Wall Street Journal reporter Alexandra Berzon said that favorable circumstances set the stage for the stories on Las Vegas construction deaths that earned her a 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service when she was with the Las Vegas Sun. It is clear, though, that her success in the project derived centrally […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
November 11, 2009
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Key settlement in FAC case breaks new ground in public access to officials’ emails

[…] a landmark settlement in a case involving public access to government email messages. The agreement with the city of Auburn, California requires the city to save emails for at least two years–replacing a prior policy of deleting most emails after 30 days. The agreement, approved by the city today, also assures public access to […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
July 25, 2012
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Groups Urge Mendocino County to Repeal Unlawful Public Records Fee Ordinance

Letter urges county officials to stop unlawful practice of charging high fees to respond to California Public Records Act requests FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 27, 2023 Contact: [email protected] The First Amendment Coalition and ACLU of Northern California today called on Mendocino County to repeal an unlawful ordinance that imposes high fees on public records […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
April 27, 2023
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Government officials should listen to voters instead of lawyers selling strategies for blocking access to information

[…] into government's DNA. But some efforts to withhold information are more dangerous to democracy than others. The most dangerous are government lying (about the existence of documents, for example), particularly in circumstances where officials lie with impunity. Almost as dangerous, but less obviously so, are situations in which government agencies restructure the way they […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
March 24, 2014
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FAC Update

[…] for FAC. James Madison would be pleased. FAC members will be pleased. Stay tuned for an announcement. Member Drive And speaking of FAC members, you may have noticed that we are in the midst of a new member drive. For a limited time, membership for individuals (as distinct from businesses and other organizations) is […]

October 21, 2016
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FAC Succeeds in Unsealing Search Warrant Executed on SF Journalist Bryan Carmody

[…] result of a motion filed by the First Amendment Coalition along with two press-advocacy groups, requires the San Francisco Police Department to release, by Tuesday, their application for a search warrant used to secretly collect information from Carmody’s phone. The search warrant application will show what if anything police told Judge Rochelle East about […]

July 19, 2019