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Sacramento Police May Have Violated Press Rights at Encampment Clearing

[…] distance. They cannot interfere with operations but they have a right to observe. This sounds like an excessive restriction on the right to record and cover police activities … I don’t see how they can close off an entire block." A word to city officials who are planning their own encampment sweeps: the First […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Press Freedom
September 3, 2024
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San Bernardino County Sheriff Finally Releases Videos of Shootout After FAC Demanded Full Disclosure
- Government Transparency and Accountability
April 4, 2024
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First Amendment

Groups Urge Fresno County to Reject Book Ban

[…] children’s books and other materials with allegedly "age-inappropriate content" off-limits to anyone under 18 without "parental or guardian consent." As the letter states, the resolution "transforms the government into both nanny and censor while perverting the public’s civil liberties. The government has no business interfering with the decisions of young people and their families […]
- Free Expression
November 7, 2023
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FAC urges ‘NO’ vote on San Francisco’s Prop E

[…] that make San Francisco’s political process more transparent and more open to voices that are not currently heard, and FAC supports the use of technology to make government more accountable to the people. But Prop E is a flawed proposal that will create serious, practical problems. For example, Prop E allows organized groups (consisting […]

September 9, 2015
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FAC Urges Vallejo City Hall to Acknowledge Public Records Requests Can Be Made Anonymously
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 23, 2022
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FAC Urges California Highway Patrol to Release Public Records Relating to 2016 California State Capitol Violence
- Government Transparency and Accountability
February 16, 2018
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Groups Object to Alameda District Attorney’s Refusal to Allow Journalist to Attend Press Conference

[…] Raguso to attend a press conference yesterday. Raguso wrote about being turned away here. The group's letter notes: "Beyond the threat to Ms. Raguso’s press freedoms, your office’s actions exert a chilling effect on the journalism community as a whole. No reporter should have to couch their coverage of public officials for fear of losing […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Press Freedom
November 30, 2023
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FAC Supports Senate Bill 16 to Improve Police Transparency in California
- Government Transparency and Accountability
April 1, 2021
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FAC Supports Bill that Would Reopen California Prisons and Jails to Journalists

[…] a letter authored by the California News Publishers Association, which is a co-sponsor of the bill along with the California Broadcasters Association, a coalition of 12 open- government and press advocacy groups said: Passage of SB 254 would accomplish twin aims bringing more transparency to one of the most crucial parts of California’s criminal […]
- Press Freedom
March 1, 2023
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FAC Supports AB 1758 to Limit Cost of Courts Records in California
- Government Transparency and Accountability
April 14, 2023