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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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In settlement with FAC, LA County Jail releases inmate visitor log, agrees to relax secrecy rule

[…] Angeles County Jails is information that falls under the California Public Records Act (CPRA). With regard to inmates who are also high-ranking public officials, as defined in Government Code section 82048 and also to include judicial officers and high-ranking officials of the federal government, given their unique status and the public's interest, there is […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
December 5, 2013
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Groups Urge Mendocino County to Repeal Unlawful Public Records Fee Ordinance

[…] between $20 to $150 per hour of staff time spent locating or reviewing public records requested under the California Public Records Act, or CPRA. But California’s open- government laws do not allow agencies to demand payment to cover the cost of staff time to respond to requests. Such fees are a threat to an […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
April 27, 2023
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Google’s purchase of Motorola shows dangers of out-of-control patent litigation

[…] growth and job growth is huge. Politicians and economists, particularly of the Republican variety, have been quick to blame the US economy's slow pace of recovery on government uncertainty--uncertainty about the impact on businesses of new federal initiatives (particularly, the Obama administration's healthcare program), tax policy, and environmental regulations. They should be expressing similar […]

August 16, 2011
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Google’s Antitrust Wrist Slap Is Right Result for Wrong Reason. Right Reason: Google Search Results are Protected Speech

[…] "search bias" allegations, reached the right destination, but it took the wrong route to get there. The search results produced by Google's search engine are exempt from government control, whether under antitrust or other laws, because they are protected, as free speech, by the proverbial "higher law" of the First Amendment. First Amendment considerations […]

January 7, 2013
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Free the Hewlett-Packard 5!

[…] disaffected employees or board members from leaking. The media’s relative freedom to publish leaks, whether from corporations or the Defense Department, is a function of corporations’ and government’s relative freedom to identify and punish leakers in their own ranks. If they were constrained in their ability to deter leaks internally, their claim to stop […]
- Press Freedom
June 2, 2009
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For Google, Facebook et al, the best defense against NSA surveillance is not legal reform, but technology that forces the agency to come through the “front door”

[…] NSA and wants to see its activities curbed. Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, nerds and Luddites, all share a high level of discomfort about the federal government gaining access to their personal information stored on the servers of Google, Facebook, Yahoo and others. But here's the question: If we object to NSA's use […]

January 7, 2014
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Federal Judge rules in FAC case: US can keep secret a legal memo on drone strikes targeting US citizen

[…] that were not properly classified could nonetheless be withheld on grounds of attorney-client privilege. "We continue to believe the public has a right to know, in detail, the government's legal justification for tracking down a terrorist suspect, who is also a US citizen, and killing him," said Peter Scheer, FAC's executive director. "We're not saying the government can't […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
April 15, 2014
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FAC, ACLU Sue for Public Access to Kern County Superior Court

[…] against Kern County Superior Court officials for denying access to court proceedings in violation of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. (Read more about FAC's open- government advocacy amid the COVID-10 crisis.) The suit comes at a time when many businesses in Kern County, including bowling alleys and hair salons, have been permitted […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 26, 2020
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FAC Welcomes Legal Fellow Monica Price

[…] to welcome Monica Price as its next legal fellow. In this role, Price will work directly with journalists and others to help them access public records and government meetings, while also contributing to a range of First Amendment and open-government litigation. "We are thrilled to welcome Monica to the team," said FAC Executive Director […]

July 22, 2021