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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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Feedback from recent column, “Snowden Go Home”

[…] Not surprisingly, these views triggered some critical comments. Several said that Snowden's actions were the same, morally speaking, as Daniel Ellsberg's leaking of the Pentagon Papers, the classified government history of US involvement in Vietnam, whose publication by the NY Times, the Washington Post and others in 1971 was seen as a first amendment cause […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
August 15, 2014
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Federal judge’s order shutting down wikileaks.org, a whistleblower website, is 1st Amendment travesty

[…] Tibet movement while recently performing in Shanghai, to Steven Spielberg stepping down as artistic adviser of the Beijing Games citing objections to China’s ties to the Sudanese government, many see this as an opportune moment to put pressure on the People’s Republic. Here at the California First Amendment Coalition, we have had our eyes […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 3, 2009
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FAC’s Peter Scheer to speak at May 8 public records litigation seminar

[…] take before bringing a lawsuit in a public records case? This question will be the focus of discussion for FAC Executive Director Peter Scheer and other top government-access legal specialists participating in the Public Records Act Litigation Seminar, Wed., May 8 in San Francisco. The seminar is designed for public and private attorneys who […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
April 26, 2013
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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
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FAC Urges Court to Block Fresno Ordinance, Citing First Amendment Concerns

The press plays an important role in documenting the government’s treatment of homeless people, FAC's brief says UPDATE May 24, 2022: A federal judge, citing First Amendment problems, granted plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of the ordinance at issue in the case. Read the order. The First Amendment Coalition today filed […]
- Press Freedom
April 12, 2022
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FAC Receives Three-Year, $375,000 Grant From Jonathan Logan Family Foundation

[…] our organization in 2014 and has guaranteed his foundation’s support over an extended period of time going forward speaks volumes to the foundation’s commitment to open and accountable government, free speech and aggressive, independent journalism." The Logan grant will provide $125,000 per year in 2018, 2019 and 2020, with $50,000 each year coming in the […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Press Freedom
April 20, 2018
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FAC Moves—Again—To Unseal Records From CA Supreme Court “Secret Docket”

[…] Newsom asked the state Supreme Court on April 23 to review whether Burton should be pardoned. Under Article 1, Section 8(a) of the California Constitution, the governor must get a majority recommendation from the Supreme Court before being able to grant clemency to anyone "twice convicted of a felony," which applies to Burton. As […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
May 11, 2019