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    Advocacy

    We engage in public and legal advocacy around crucial issues affecting government transparency, press rights, and the people’s right to know, with a focus on California state and local policy and practices. This work includes influencing legislation, responding to threats to freedom of the press and freedom of expression, and enforcing freedom of information […]

    June 11, 2024

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    Q&A: FAC Legal Director David Loy on the right to honk your horn as a form of expression

    […] First Amendment Coalition is supporting a federal civil rights case brought by the ACLU Foundation of San Diego & Imperial Counties that aims to limit when the government can ticket someone for sounding their car horn to speak out (read our amicus brief). The ACLU’s case is on behalf of Susan Porter, a San […]

    February 16, 2022

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    Press Release

    Cal Poly Student Journalist, FAC Sue University for Withholding Public Records

    Award-Winning Student Journalist’s Public Records Requests Remain Unfulfilled for More Than 18 Months SAN RAFAEL, Calif. — Elizabeth Wilson, a student journalist at Mustang News, the student paper at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly), today sued the school for violating the California Public Records Act by refusing to disclose public […]

    April 23, 2024

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    Court Access

    FCI Dublin Motion to Unseal

    FAC joined freelance journalist Victoria Law, nonprofit news organization The Appeal, and the ACLU of Northern California in moving to unseal court records and preserve public access to hearings in the landmark class action lawsuit that survivors of sexual assault at FCI Dublin brought against the federal Bureau of Prisons in 2023. CLOSED

    June 12, 2024

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    Explainer

    California Public Records Act: Investigatory Records

    September 5, 2025

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    FAC News

    Veteran Reporters Join FAC to Expand Journalist Education Program

    […] custom trainings and designing other educational resources tailored to the needs of reporters, photographers and editors across beats and experience levels, with a focus on access to government information.  Esquivel joins FAC after nearly 18 years at the Los Angeles Times, where she shared in two Pulitzer Prizes, and most recently served as an […]

    July 8, 2025

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    Message from the FAC Board

    […] under threat. The rule of law is essential for our democracy. In our work, we use the court system to enforce First Amendment rights, as well as government transparency and accountability. The recent, unconstitutional executive orders punishing several law firms and the verbal attacks on federal judges whose decisions do not please the administration […]

    April 22, 2025

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    Planned Giving Legacy Society

    Like your everyday actions, your charitable gifts have an impact on others. Perhaps you have considered a charitable legacy to continue your philanthropy beyond your lifetime, to have your family remembered, and your philanthropy is woven into the lives of others. With a legacy gift, you can. We invite you to make your philanthropy […]

    July 26, 2024