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    How Trump’s War on Free Speech Threatens the Republic

    […] subpoenaed and seized phone records from more than 100 Associated Press reporters, potentially in violation of the department’s own policies. Thanks to the rampant over classification of government documents, Obama’s pursuit of whistleblowers meant that even relatively mundane disclosures could have serious, even criminal, consequences for the leaker. Under Obama, McClatchy noted in 2013, […]

    June 6, 2017

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    Media Leak Investigations and the First Amendment

    […] development praised by press-freedom groups. The following live panel discussion took place days before the memo was released. Journalists’ ability to protect confidential sources and keep the government from accessing their unpublished notes and other communications records is key to newsgathering and a core part of press freedom. That’s why recent revelations that the U.S. Justice […]

    August 13, 2024

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    Is it normal to receive multiple CPRA extensions for months?

    […] be made available." Govt. Code § 7922.535(a). Therefore, although the CPRA establishes deadlines for an agency’s initial response to a request, it "does not specify when records must be produced to a requesting party." Motorola Communication & Electronics, Inc. v. Department of General Services, 55 Cal. App. 4th 1340, 1349 (1997). In "unusual circumstances," […]

    April 24, 2025

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    Behind the Headlines: How EdSource Put Sunshine on Policing in California Schools

    […] faced nearly a triple level of blockage on this. With limited exceptions, police in California have very wide discretion to provide nothing under the California Public Records Act, largely because of  the investigatory records exemption,* which is very broad and almost never expires. Additionally, schools are subject to educational privacy rules, so what happens […]

    October 14, 2024

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    FAC To LAPD: Police Bodycam Footage is a Public Record and Must Be Released

    […] controversies about the police use of force have heightened tensions between the police and the communities they serve. Transparency—the ability of the people to see and know what their  government is up to—is essential to the proper functioning of our democracy, including the role police play in it. Bodycam footage is essential to the fundamental right […]

    June 8, 2017

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    FAC, ACLU Urge Temecula School Board and Its President to Halt Free Speech Violations at Meetings

    Last week, FAC joined the ACLU of Southern California in demanding that the Temecula Valley Unified School District ("TVUSD") School Board stop trampling on the Brown Act and First Amendment.  Since a new majority was elected in late 2022, the board has made a series of controversial decisions including firing the superintendent, banning "critical […]

    August 22, 2023

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    The First Amendment protects journalists using Snowden’s documents. But what about Snowden?

    […] information, not a journalist who receives leaks. The difference is crucial: in the transaction between source and journalist, constitutional protections extend only to the latter. Specifically, the government is legally powerless to get a court injunction barring a journalist from publishing a story based on leaked information. And post-publication, too, journalists have special protections: […]

    October 22, 2013

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    The dark side of ‘sunshining’ government data online

    […] sets becoming available, and entrepreneurs building thousands of innovative applications. Then the ill-considered race to slash the Federal deficit started. The Obama Administration agreed to cut e- government initiative funding from $35 million to $8 million. Never mind that Kundra’s programs had already saved taxpayers $3 billion over the past two years. But were […]

    June 29, 2011