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CPRA Police Records

Balancing Police Officers’ Privacy Rights with Public Access — Who Decides?

Who is responsible for balancing the police officers' right to a confidential personnel file, the police agencies obligation to keep personnel actions and records confidential, and the public's right to transparency?

April 14, 2022
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How Do I Access Records Pertaining to a Complaint I Filed In New Mexico?

[…] here. Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP is general counsel for the First Amendment Coalition and responds to FAC hotline inquiries. In responding to these inquiries, we can give general information regarding open government and speech issues but cannot provide specific legal advice or representation. No attorney-client relationship has been formed by way of this response.

January 20, 2021
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CPRA

Can I Obtain A Copy of A Zoning Complaint Filed Against Me?

[…] Primer. Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP is general counsel for the First Amendment Coalition and responds to FAC hotline inquiries. In responding to these inquiries, we can give general information regarding open government and speech issues but cannot provide specific legal advice or representation. No attorney-client relationship has been formed by way of this response.

August 11, 2020
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Should Honking Your Horn to Support a Protest Be Illegal? We Want the Supreme Court to Decide.

[…] was shocked. I had to do something. So I filed the lawsuit challenging this law in 2018, and I’ve continued this case at FAC, arguing that the government violated Susan’s free speech rights by ticketing her for honking her horn. Unfortunately, the lower courts disagreed, although a Ninth Circuit judge dissented. So FAC has […]
- Free Expression
December 14, 2023
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If the federal FOIA shared the limitations of California’s public records law, large parts of American history would be blank.

Fortunately, the California Legislature didn’t have a hand in crafting the federal Freedom of Information Act. If it had, the American people would have been denied the primary source material for a large chunk of recent American history. Much of what we know about the major themes of US political history during the 35 […]

October 14, 2014
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Public Meetings

FAC Urges San Mateo County to Keep Sheriff’s Removal Hearing Open to Public
- Government Transparency and Accountability
July 16, 2025
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First Amendment

Government Can’t Dictate Editorial Decisions, FAC Tells Brentwood City Council
- Press Freedom
July 23, 2024
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Court Access

Groups Urge Judge to Provide Remote Access to Mahmoud Khalil Hearings
- Government Transparency and Accountability
April 10, 2025
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First Amendment

How do I know whether a city retaliated against me for criticizing it?

[…] 940 F.3d at 1054 (quoting City of Houston v. Hill, 482 U.S. 451, 461 (1987)). In particular, as the Supreme Court has noted, "the First Amendment prohibits government officials from subjecting an individual to retaliatory actions, including criminal prosecutions, for speaking out." Hartman v. Moore, 547 U.S. 250, 256 (2006). As another court said, […]

April 1, 2025
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First Amendment Coalition Awarded Largest Single Gift Since its Inception

[…] legal matters while also ensuring journalists working in a shifting media landscape have access to high-quality tutorials, workshops, guides, and other tools for accessing public records and government proceedings. "For almost four decades, FAC has been a strong First Amendment defender in the nation’s most populous state, but recent years have produced a case […]

March 12, 2025