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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
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Why the doom-and-gloom about the settlement in the Wen Ho Lee case? Under the circumstances, this deal is a victory for the press

[…] join in a settlement of an invasion of privacy lawsuit filed by Wen Ho Lee, an atomic scientist once suspected of espionage. Lee had sued the federal government for its leaking of damaging information about him to the press, which, in a flurry of articles in 1998, had rushed to the apparently premature judgment […]
- Press Freedom
June 2, 2009
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US relaxes gag order, permitting Google, Facebook et al to disclose scope of NSA access. But what if the firms don’t know the extent of NSA access?

[…] hardly matters how scrupulous the agency is in adhering to applicable legal rules restricting access through Google's front door. Google of course can't be transparent about the government's access to customer information when Google itself is aware of only part of that access. And Google's customers, particularly its customers residing outside the US, will […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
February 4, 2014
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UCLA Turns Over Video of Contentious Event with Treasury Secretary After Public Records Requests Flood in

[…] release video or audio of the event. After UCLA refused to publish the video, groups—including FAC—responded by filing a flurry of requests under the California Public Records Act seeking the footage. FAC filed its request on March 1, pointing out that UCLA’s obligations to release records under the CPRA cannot be controlled or influenced […]
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- Government Transparency and Accountability
March 12, 2018
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Trumping Trump: California’s Attack on the First Amendment

[…] records, as is their right, under the California Public Records Act. A hesitant press is a press that can’t fulfill its constitutionally protected mission to hold the government to account. If California’s leaders mean it when they say they are protecting their state against constitutional violations, they should look in the mirror first. David […]
- Free Expression
- Press Freedom
May 21, 2019
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Transparency coming to police one city at a time

[…] doing so they are responding to broad-based public pressure. Polls show voters overwhelmingly support greater transparency for law enforcement---and for access to police videos in particular. Local governments’ responsiveness to public pressure is in sharp contrast to the state Legislature, which favors more secrecy. No fewer than three bills that would raise barriers to […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 24, 2016
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The attacks in Paris are a clarifying moment for freedom of speech

[…] but also ideas and expression that are offensive, repugnant, even hateful. That proposition, while obvious in the abstract, is too often disputed in practice. Despite the French government’s post-attack embrace of the magazine, many cartoons in Charlie Hebdo are probably illegal under French laws criminalizing expression that is offensive and insulting on the basis […]
- Free Expression
January 22, 2015
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Pultizer Prize-winning reporter describes quest for truth in Las Vegas construction deaths

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- Government Transparency and Accountability
November 11, 2009
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Now Hiring: Development Director

[…] accelerate FAC’s successful fundraising work, which has fueled an expansion of our budget, our staff and, most importantly, our impact in advancing press freedoms, free expression and government transparency. Nonpartisan and nonprofit, FAC believes that the broadest range of engaged and informed communities is essential to the health of our democracy – that the […]

August 25, 2022
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Now Hiring: Communications Director or Manager

[…] closed The First Amendment Coalition (FAC) seeks an experienced communications professional to raise awareness about the organization’s mission to advance and protect press freedoms, free expression and government transparency. The communications director/manager will set communications strategy and priorities, and execute daily tasks to elevate FAC programs and inform news coverage of open-government and First […]

August 25, 2022