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    Former San Jose Mayor Must Show His Text and Email Search Complied with Public Records Law

    […] emails for city business, going as far as directing a constituent to contact him by personal email and saying, "I’m going to delete this email from my government account." The lawsuit challenged the city’s response to requests by San José Spotlight and FAC for messages about city business on Liccardo’s personal accounts or devices. […]

    July 20, 2023

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    FAC’s Top Sunshine Week Resources

    Every week is Sunshine Week at FAC, where we are fighting for government transparency and your right to know all year round. As Sunshine Week comes to a close this year, we wanted to share some of our top resources: Watch: Unlocking Public Records in California, where FAC’s open-government experts focused on educating journalists […]

    March 15, 2024

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    FAC Helps Defeat Effort by School District to Recover Nearly $500K in Attorneys Fees From Records Requester

    […] the school district’s motion, explaining that it lacked any basis in law and, moreover, would cast an intolerable chill over the public’s ability to learn about their government. "The court’s order here sends a clear message to public agencies who would try to twist the California Public Records Act to punish those seeking transparency […]

    April 11, 2018

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    FAC Gets $100K Boost from Craig Newmark Philanthropies

    […] transparent and accountable to the people The First Amendment Coalition is pleased to announce a $100,000 gift from Craig Newmark Philanthropies to boost the nonprofit’s work advancing government transparency, free speech and a free press. The gift supports all of FAC’s programs, including training and advocacy for journalists, a free Legal Hotline for all, […]

    August 24, 2021

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    FAC Forces Disclosure of CA Gov. Brown’s Request to Pardon Former State Sen. Wright

    Nearly 300 pages of previously secret documents became public yesterday after the First Amendment Coalition (FAC) filed a motion to unseal records regarding Gov. Jerry Brown’s effort to pardon former state Sen. Rod Wright. Thedocuments—some still heavily redacted—had been originally filed under seal as part of a flawed, longstanding practice in which all papers […]

    January 4, 2019

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    Equal Justice Society Criticizes CFAC Suit against State Bar for records on affirmative action.

    […] Privacy Act (FERPA) governs the privacy and disclosure of educational records. Under FERPA, anonymized educational records are routinely made public, by education institutions and by the federal government itself. Every case we have found addressing a request such as that made by CFAC held that disclosure was required, and does not violate FERPA. Notably, […]

    June 3, 2009

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    Craig Newmark Philanthropies Commits $100K to FAC

    Gift fuels journalist training programs, open- government litigation and press freedom defense work The First Amendment Coalition today announced a $100,000 gift from Craig Newmark Philanthropies to support the nonprofit’s work advancing government transparency, free speech and a free press. The gift comes during an especially critical time for combatting government secrecy and threats […]

    September 9, 2020

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    China resident responds to Commentary on China’s censorship of internet

    […] class (as they are now labeled) Chinese filling shopping malls are thoughtful, articulate people. People who are discouraged and often angered by the arbitrary power of their government and its officials, the pervasive corruption they experience in everyday life, by the mixture of bland facts, half truths, distortions and occasional outright lies they hear […]

    June 2, 2009

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    An open letter to judges in the BALCO appeal

    […] District Court, the reporters will go to jail for up to 18 months and the Chronicle will start paying hefty fines it can scarcely afford. The federal government is obviously determined to find out who leaked to the reporters, Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, the testimony of Barry Bonds and other witnesses before the […]

    June 2, 2009