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  • Asked and Answered

    Brown Act

    A City Council’s COVID-19 Ordinance Allows Only email or Pre-Recorded Telephonic Comments

    […] local legislative body or state body that holds a meeting via teleconferencing and allows members of the public to observe and address the meeting telephonically or otherwise electronically. . . shall have satisfied any requirement that the body allow members of the public to attend the meeting and offer public comment. Such a body […]

    January 20, 2021

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    Terms of Service

    […] by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by you, the copyright owner, its agent, or the law. An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest. A statement by you, made under penalty of […]

    July 8, 2024

  • Posts

    FAC Supports AB 1758 to Limit Cost of Courts Records in California 

    FAC supports Assembly Bill 1758, which would reduce barriers to public information by prohibiting California courts from charging unreasonable fees to search, view or download electronic records on court websites. Read our joint letter with the California News Publishers Association in support of AB 1758. You can track the bill's status on the California Legislature's website.

    April 14, 2023

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    Blog

    Unplug Wikileaks? Enact a Federal Shield Law Instead

    […] fingerprints of  sources, rendering leaked documents untraceable. By contrast, the same documents leaked to the Washington Post, whether by means of email, "cloud"-based internet services or other electronic communications, would be vulnerable to interception and tracing. And if the documents, instead, were hand-delivered to the Post, its reporter could be subpoenaed and forced to […]

    November 16, 2010

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    Press Release

    Joint Statement from FAC and EFF on DOJ Leaks Investigations

    […]  information of public interest that was obtained unlawfully, so long as the journalists themselves broke no laws in receiving the information.  However, this law has never been applied in the context of an Espionage Act prosecution. Contacts: David Snyder Executive Director First Amendment Coalition [email protected] 415-460-5060 David Greene Civil Liberties Director Electronic Frontier Foundation [email protected]

    August 4, 2017

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    FAC News Press Release

    Announcing FAC’s 2014 Free Speech & Open Government Award Winners

    […] some of the best practices of journalism, building their database by hand when the state Department of Social Services couldn't muster the technology to make records available electronically, and providing the public with original source documents as well as CARR's facility-by-facility 10-year summaries. There were many outstanding nominees--individuals and groups--whose honorable work is deserving […]

    December 2, 2014

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    CPRA

    CPRA request won’t be fulfilled unless we show documents we’ve already received

    […] officials’ private email or text accounts, rather than accounts belonging to the government. Unfortunately, an appellate court overturned the lower court’s ruling, finding that messages sent from private electronic devices are not subject to disclosure under the Public Records Act.  According to the California Supreme Court's website, the case has now been fully briefed (as of […]

    June 16, 2016

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    Blog Cases

    Big victory in CA Supreme Court case on public access to government data

    In a major victory for open government and data access, the California Supreme Court yesterday ruled that Orange County cannot restrict access to its electronic mapping data--a so-called "basemap." The Court decided unanimously that the county basemap is a public record under the Public Records Act, which means that it must be made available […]

    July 10, 2013

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    First Amendment

    Ok for court reporter to transcribe mayor’s speech at private-sector event?

    […] "content neutral" -- i.e., administered without regard for the content at issue (in this case, the memorialization of the mayor's comments) -- restrictions such as prohibiting any electronic recording devices may be permissible. The inquiry is fairly fact specific, so it is difficult to give you a concrete answer in the abstract. That said, perhaps […]

    September 14, 2016