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FAC Supports CA Senate Bill 1244 to Protect Public Records Requesters

[…] explained to the court, the CPRA explicitly protects the public from efforts by public agencies to seek financial revenge for the act of seeking information about the government. "The CPRA is designed to protect the public from efforts like that of the Newark school district, but unfortunately there is language in the current law […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
May 2, 2018
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FAC Opposes Bills that Weaken Open-Meetings Protections

California lawmakers are considering bills that would weaken our open-meeting protections by allowing officials who serve on a variety of local and state government bodies to avoid showing up to work in person. FAC opposes: SB 544 SB 411 SB 537 Read our coalition’s opposition letters for SB 544, SB 411, and SB 537. What […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
July 12, 2023
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FAC Opposes Bill that Could Hinder Public Access to Meetings

FAC joined a coalition of civic groups to oppose California Assembly Bill 361, which would allow local governments to operate with less openness and evade transparency requirements of the Brown Act during a locally declared emergency. Read our coalition's letter in opposition to AB 361. Track AB 361.
- Government Transparency and Accountability
April 2, 2021
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FAC Letter to Cal Poly Regarding Mustang News Reporter’s Public Records Requests

[…] about this case here. On June 16, 2023, the First Amendment Coalition sent the following letter to California Polytechnic State University – San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly) regarding its failure to comply with the California Public Records Act regarding five separate records requests by Elizabeth Wilson, a student journalist at Mustang News, the campus newspaper.
- Government Transparency and Accountability
April 23, 2024
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California’s Computer Privacy Laws Require a Critical Update: SB 178 is it.

[…] documents of all kinds. Tell your assemblymember to support S.B. 178 (text of bill), the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (CalECPA), to protect our private digital lives from government overreach. California’s electronic privacy laws were written in, and for, the digital ecosystem of the 1970s and 80s. CalECPA is a major upgrade, critically important and long […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
August 20, 2015
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Why the doom-and-gloom about the settlement in the Wen Ho Lee case? Under the circumstances, this deal is a victory for the press

[…] join in a settlement of an invasion of privacy lawsuit filed by Wen Ho Lee, an atomic scientist once suspected of espionage. Lee had sued the federal government for its leaking of damaging information about him to the press, which, in a flurry of articles in 1998, had rushed to the apparently premature judgment […]
- Press Freedom
June 2, 2009
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US relaxes gag order, permitting Google, Facebook et al to disclose scope of NSA access. But what if the firms don’t know the extent of NSA access?

[…] hardly matters how scrupulous the agency is in adhering to applicable legal rules restricting access through Google's front door. Google of course can't be transparent about the government's access to customer information when Google itself is aware of only part of that access. And Google's customers, particularly its customers residing outside the US, will […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
February 4, 2014
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UCLA Turns Over Video of Contentious Event with Treasury Secretary After Public Records Requests Flood in

[…] release video or audio of the event. After UCLA refused to publish the video, groups—including FAC—responded by filing a flurry of requests under the California Public Records Act seeking the footage. FAC filed its request on March 1, pointing out that UCLA’s obligations to release records under the CPRA cannot be controlled or influenced […]
- Free Expression
- Government Transparency and Accountability
March 12, 2018
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Trumping Trump: California’s Attack on the First Amendment

[…] records, as is their right, under the California Public Records Act. A hesitant press is a press that can’t fulfill its constitutionally protected mission to hold the government to account. If California’s leaders mean it when they say they are protecting their state against constitutional violations, they should look in the mirror first. David […]
- Free Expression
- Press Freedom
May 21, 2019
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Transparency coming to police one city at a time

[…] doing so they are responding to broad-based public pressure. Polls show voters overwhelmingly support greater transparency for law enforcement---and for access to police videos in particular. Local governments’ responsiveness to public pressure is in sharp contrast to the state Legislature, which favors more secrecy. No fewer than three bills that would raise barriers to […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 24, 2016