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    FAC News Press Release

    FAC Receives Three-Year, $600,000 Grant From Jonathan Logan Family Foundation

    […] committed $600,000 over the next three years to ensure FAC thrives as it continues to expand its work promoting and protecting a free press, free expression, and government transparency." This generous gift sets FAC on a path to serve even more journalists, activists, and ordinary citizens in their pursuit of government transparency and accountability," […]

    September 5, 2024

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    Submit Your Nominations for a 2024 Free Speech & Open Government Award!

    Nominations are now open for the First Amendment Coalition’s 2024 Free Speech & Open Government Awards! These annual awards honor the year’s best contributions towards the advancement of open government and freedom of expression and information. Perhaps you’re a journalist who wrangled some particularly important public records for a story. Or you’re an activist […]

    December 17, 2024

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    Cases Press Release

    Cal Poly Student Settles Public Records Lawsuit Against University

    […] in a Public Records Act lawsuit against the Board of Trustees of the California State University (CSU) system. FAC represents Elizabeth Wilson, a student journalist at the Mustang News, the student paper at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly). "I’m so pleased Cal Poly has agreed to a settlement, but it […]

    November 1, 2024

  • Cases

    Court Access Public Records

    Doe v. Mill Valley School District

    FAC is representing Holly McDede, a freelance reporter, in a lawsuit that seeks to prevent the release of documents covered by the California Public Records Act ("CPRA"), also known as a "reverse-CPRA" case. McDede covers sexual misconduct in schools, and has previously written about other school employees’ misconduct. CLOSED

    October 31, 2024

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    The First

    The First celebrates icons, journalists, activists, and attorneys who embody the rights and values FAC fights for every day — to speak truth to power, to publish uncomfortable facts, and to harness the power of the people to bring about change.  

    July 20, 2024

  • Events

    Unlocking Public Records in California

    For this October 26 training session, FAC’s open- government experts focused educating journalists on using the California Public Records Act to tell important stories. The training offers tips and tricks for overcoming barriers to information. The session featured Omar Rashad, government accountability reporter for Fresnoland, who shared insights on how to use public records […]

    July 22, 2025

  • Posts

    FAC Urges Mendocino County to Adhere to First Amendment Protections in Establishing Media Program for PRA Requests

    […] Ordinance is lawful," FAC writes in its Aug. 29, 2022, letter, "we submit this letter to explain that any definition of ‘media organization’ the County might adopt must comport with strict First Amendment standards." The California News Publishers Association and the Freedom of Information Committee of the Northern California Chapter of the Society of […]

    August 30, 2022

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    First Amendment

    FAC Calls on California City to End Unconstitutional Public Comment Policy

    […] actual disruption of a meeting. Indeed, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has held that virtually identical language is unconstitutional. No matter how intemperate, criticism of government and public officials is the core of what the First Amendment protects. As one court said over 40 years ago, "In America, one who seeks or […]

    August 8, 2022

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    CA Senate Bill 1421 Would Bring Desperately Needed Transparency to Police Misconduct Files

    […] agencies subject to the California Public Records Act) in being able to keep secret even confirmed allegations of misconduct. For everyone except police officers, investigations into misconduct must be made public if the charges are "well-founded," or if discipline is imposed. California has long been an outlier in the degree to which it allows […]

    April 9, 2018