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Sacramento Television Stations, Inc. v. Superior Court

[…] A.B. 748 to prove that disclosure would substantially interfere with an active investigation by endangering a witness or confidential source or causing similar harm. If agencies could comply with the statute by disclosing only snippets of critical incident recordings or justify withholding the recordings by merely asserting an investigation is active, A.B. 748’s mandate […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
January 11, 2025
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Public Meetings

FAC Protests Removal of Press and Public from Shasta County Board of Supervisors Meeting

This letter protests the removal of the press and public from the Shasta County Board of Supervisors meeting on November 7, 2024. The removal violated the Brown Act’s open-meetings protections and raises serious First Amendment concerns.
- Government Transparency and Accountability
November 19, 2024
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Our California Legislative Priorities Focus on Police Transparency and Press Protections

The First Amendment Coalition's priorities for the 2021 California legislative session focus on advancing police transparency, strengthening press and protester protections, and opposing government secrecy in all forms. Read our position letters to see where we stand on bills we are monitoring: FAC supports these bills AB 339: Enhances public access to meetings AB […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Press Freedom
April 6, 2021
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Legislature approves FAC-sponsored bill on cell phone privacy. Will Brown sign it?

[…] a warrant or other judicial supervision. (d) The intrusion on the information privacy and freedom of communication of any person arrested is of such enormity that it must require arresting officers to obtain a warrant to search the information contained in or accessed through an arrested's arrested person's portable electronic device, such as a […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
September 2, 2011
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FAC Supports SB 776 to Improve Police Transparency in California

[…] as a peace officer to immediately report all use-of-force incidents by the officer to the officer's employer. The measure also has provisions that would encourage agencies to comply with the law: a $1,000 fine per day for each day beyond 30 days that disclosable records are not turned over to a requester, and the […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
August 5, 2020
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FAC Supports CA Senate Bill 1244 to Protect Public Records Requesters

[…] explained to the court, the CPRA explicitly protects the public from efforts by public agencies to seek financial revenge for the act of seeking information about the government. "The CPRA is designed to protect the public from efforts like that of the Newark school district, but unfortunately there is language in the current law […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
May 2, 2018
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FAC Opposes Bills that Weaken Open-Meetings Protections

California lawmakers are considering bills that would weaken our open-meeting protections by allowing officials who serve on a variety of local and state government bodies to avoid showing up to work in person. FAC opposes: SB 544 SB 411 SB 537 Read our coalition’s opposition letters for SB 544, SB 411, and SB 537. What […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
July 12, 2023
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FAC Opposes Bill that Could Hinder Public Access to Meetings

FAC joined a coalition of civic groups to oppose California Assembly Bill 361, which would allow local governments to operate with less openness and evade transparency requirements of the Brown Act during a locally declared emergency. Read our coalition's letter in opposition to AB 361. Track AB 361.
- Government Transparency and Accountability
April 2, 2021
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Public Records

FAC Letter to Cal Poly Regarding Mustang News Reporter’s Public Records Requests

[…] about this case here. On June 16, 2023, the First Amendment Coalition sent the following letter to California Polytechnic State University – San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly) regarding its failure to comply with the California Public Records Act regarding five separate records requests by Elizabeth Wilson, a student journalist at Mustang News, the campus newspaper.
- Government Transparency and Accountability
April 23, 2024
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California’s Computer Privacy Laws Require a Critical Update: SB 178 is it.

[…] documents of all kinds. Tell your assemblymember to support S.B. 178 (text of bill), the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (CalECPA), to protect our private digital lives from government overreach. California’s electronic privacy laws were written in, and for, the digital ecosystem of the 1970s and 80s. CalECPA is a major upgrade, critically important and long […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
August 20, 2015