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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 […]

    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 […]

    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 […]

    June 24, 2016

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    The attacks in Paris are a clarifying moment for freedom of speech

    […] but also ideas and expression that  are offensive, repugnant, even hateful. That proposition, while obvious in the abstract, is too often disputed in practice. Despite the French government’s post-attack embrace of the magazine, many cartoons in Charlie Hebdo are probably illegal under French laws criminalizing expression that is offensive and insulting on the basis […]

    January 22, 2015

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    Now Hiring: Development Director

    […] accelerate FAC’s successful fundraising work, which has fueled an expansion of our budget, our staff and, most importantly, our impact in advancing press freedoms, free expression and government transparency.  Nonpartisan and nonprofit, FAC believes that the broadest range of engaged and informed communities is essential to the health of our democracy – that the […]

    August 25, 2022

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    Now Hiring: Communications Director or Manager

    […] closed The First Amendment Coalition (FAC) seeks an experienced communications professional to raise awareness about the organization’s mission to advance and protect press freedoms, free expression and government transparency. The communications director/manager will set communications strategy and priorities, and execute daily tasks to elevate FAC programs and inform news coverage of open-government and First […]

    August 25, 2022

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    Newspapers are not dead yet.

    […] 10 percent of their print edition revenue; and this after years of investment online. It's not that newspapers can't sell advertising on the Internet; it's that ads must be sold on a scale that is vastly higher--think Yahoo or YouTube--than the levels newspapers can ever hope to achieve. The challenge to newspapers today is […]

    June 2, 2009

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    Major newspapers back CFAC/MAPlight lawsuit to expand public access to Legislative actions

    […] to change it. On Friday, Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, suggested that a resolution may be coming soon. "When there is no additional burden on government to turn over the information in a user-friendly format, we ought to be stretching and going out of our way to do that," Steinberg said by […]

    June 2, 2009