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    Locy and Risen cases renew debate over protecting journalists’ confidential sources

    […] about conversations that thay had promised never to reveal. In the Hatfill case the judge has already succeeded in compelling Newsweek's Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman, ABC's Brian Ross, and The Washington Post's Allan Lengel to disclose their sources for reporting about Hatfill. Although Locy, like the other reporters, has ID’d some of her […]

    June 3, 2009

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    Journalist Sues City of Fresno for Withholding Public Records About Taser Use that Caused Severe Burns

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 21, 2023 Contact: [email protected] SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — Brian Howey, an Oakland-based investigative journalist, has sued the City of Fresno under the California Public Records Act (CPRA) for the city’s refusal to release use-of-force records regarding the death of Michael Sanders, who was tased multiple times by Fresno police officers […]

    April 21, 2023

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    FAC Receives $30K Grant from Central Valley Foundation — and $10K Matching Opportunity

    […] for speech and press freedoms, public access to government records and meetings, and civic engagement." FAC’s recent groundbreaking work includes itsefforts in defense of freelance journalist Bryan Carmody, who was raided by San Francisco police in violation of California’s journalist shield law.FAC alsospearheaded a legal battle to enforce California Senate Bill 1421, the state’s […]

    September 12, 2019

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    CPRA

    Can compensation to a retired gov. official be public record?

    […] the public is entitled to know who the employee is, the amount awarded and even the reasons for the award.And in an unpublished opinion letter (Letter to Brian Hill from Deputy Attorney General Lisa Lewis Dubois (1988)), the attorney general concluded that the exact compensation (not simply the pay range) of each employee is […]

    June 14, 2009

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    Free Speech & Open Government Award

    Ashley McBride and Callie Rhoades; Robert Earl Council, Melvin Ray, and Ricardo "Raoul" Poole; and Brian Howey, Jerry Mitchell, Mukta Joshi, Nate Rosenfield, Najib Aminy, and Steph Quinn

    July 3, 2024