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FAC Honors NBC Bay Area, inewsource, and the Trace/CBS News with 2024 Free Speech and Open Government Award

[…] News and Stations and The Trace, in collaboration with Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, are the winners of the 2024 FAC Free Speech and Open Government Award. "All of this work exemplifies the finest in public service journalism," said FAC Executive Director David Snyder. "In an age when the news media is […]

February 27, 2025
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Why Support FAC?

[…] available and enforced for everyone, irrespective of wealth, politics or access to power. Every day, FAC’s team of First Amendment experts fight for these protections and for government transparency on multiple fronts, bringing our decades of experience to bear by using our model of integrated advocacy—litigation, public education, and policy advocacy—to attack violations of […]

July 20, 2024
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San José Spotlight v. City of San José

[…] revelations that Liccardo directed a constituent to contact him on a personal email account to skirt public records laws. "I’m going to delete this email from my government account," Liccardo wrote to the constituent, according to documents obtained and published by San José Spotlight. As San José Spotlight and FAC attorneys told the court, […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
July 19, 2023
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FAC to California Judiciary: End Court Secrecy Now

[…] public. Today’s letter is a part of these efforts, and was made possible by support from FAC’s supporters. In addition to open-court advocacy, FAC has worked to combat government secrecy throughout the public-health emergency, speaking out against efforts to weaken freedom-of-information laws, publishing new tools to help the public and press obtain records, and holding […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Press Freedom
June 15, 2020
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Public Meetings

FAC Opposes AB 817, a Bill Weakening the Brown Act’s Public Meeting Protections

FAC sent this letter to Assemblymember Blanca Pacheco to oppose AB 817, a bill that would reduce the transparency and accountability of local government meetings, by allowing certain entities to meet entirely virtually.
- Government Transparency and Accountability
May 14, 2024
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California Assembly Bill 1479 Would Add Much-Needed Teeth to Disclosure Requirements Under the California Public Records Act

One of the most frequent complaints FAC hears from people seeking records under the California Public Records Act (CPRA) is that government agencies simply ignore the law's requirement that the government respond to a request within a certain time frame. One reason government agencies do this is that there is very little cost to […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
April 20, 2017
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Brown signs SB 1300, but calls on Legislature to fix public access issues

Governor Brown has signed SB 1300, the refinery regulation bill that FAC and others opposed because of last-minute amendments that would weaken rights of access under the Public Records Act. However, the Governor, in a signing message, made clear he wants the Legislature to pass a new bill to fix those amendments. The Governor […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
October 17, 2014
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Update on open-government legislative proposals in Sacramento

[…] "basemap" data is used to create the base layer for all local computer mapping. The bill sought to exempt from the Public Records Act, which requires all government data to be available to the public, "metadata, listings of metadata and assembled model data". CFAC has filed suit to force Santa Clara County to make […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 6, 2009
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Transcript: Protest & Pushback

[…] conversation about racial justice, and possibly the country, forever. A new generation of activists exercised their right to peaceably assemble, to speak out and to petition the government. The right to record police gained new importance. Videos of troubling — and sometimes fatal — encounters with Black people fueled demands to end systemic racism […]
- Free Expression
December 6, 2021
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The U.S. is alone among western democracies in protecting “hate speech.” Chalk it up to a healthy fear of government censorship.

[…] freedom of expression. Although we share other countries' repugnance for hate speech, particularly the race- and religion-baiting variety, the First Amendment reflects a uniquely strong aversion to government censorship of any kind. As interpreted in Supreme Court decisions going back nearly a century, the First Amendment forbids government suppression of ideas, no matter how […]
- Free Expression
March 14, 2011