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    Responses to Peter Scheer’s Commentary on Vallejo’s Bankruptcy

    […] models secret is inexcusable. -Kevin Cummins Encinitas, CA From The Huffington Post: - A suggestion for a different way to fund public employee pensions: instead of the government entity gauranteeing a specific monthly dollar amount in retirement, to be paid out of tax income, have the government entity pay a negotiated amount into a […]

    June 2, 2009

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    Reader-comments sections of news websites needn’t be cesspools. Editors should EDIT comments as they would letters-to-the-editor.

    […] remove the need to edit comments for length, it does not diminish the obligation to edit for substance. The First Amendment insulates news organizations from interference by government in their editorial decisions. The independence thus established includes the right, under the Constitution, to control all content published on a paper’s pages or its website. […]

    March 5, 2010

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    Public Citizen and CFAC seek to overturn court orders shuttering wikileaks.org

    […] orders are invalid under the First Amendment. Public Citizen is a national, nonprofit consumer advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C. CFAC is a free speech and open- government advocacy group with offices in San Rafael, CA. Here's the Public Citizen/CFAC brief. CFAC and Public Citizen are seeking to intervene as parties in the lawsuit […]

    June 3, 2009

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    Proposition

    […] not least for the California First Amendment Coalition ("CFAC"), a cash-strapped nonprofit working overtime to defend freedom of speech and the public's right to know about its government. Besides, President Obama is a big proponent of open government, as shown by his recent pronunciamento on the Freedom of Information Act. He will, I'm sure, […]

    June 3, 2009

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    FAC Suit Against CalPERS Seeks Records on Controversial E Palo Alto Real Estate Investment

    FAC---Monday July 19---The First Amendment Coalition (FAC) today announced that it has sued CalPERS, the retirement system for California government workers, over access to records about the agency’s ill-fated investment in an East Palo Alto residential real estate development that has gone bust--at a loss to CalPERS of all of its $100 million stake […]

    July 20, 2010

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    New “drone memo” to be released to FAC . . . and other developments in FAC’s legal cases

    The US Justice Department has advised FAC that it plans to release a second redacted memo analyzing the legality of the government’s proposed use of force to kill al-Aulaqi, a US citizen who had joined Al Qaeda and taken on operational functions for Al-Qaeda’s  operations in Yemen. Al-Aulaqi was subsequently killed in a 2010 […]

    July 11, 2014

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    Moving On

    […] CA and across the country. FAC’s Board members, led by Board President Carol Melamed, are engaged, rich in talent and unreservedly committed to our free speech and open government mission. While fundraising is always a challenge, FAC’s finances are stronger and more stable than at any previous time. Major new funders include Will Hearst, Craig […]

    June 25, 2016

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    Mel Opotowsky, 1931-2024

    […] few thousand dollars to what it is today: a robust and growing organization with a professional staff that shapes public policy, fights important court battles on open- government and First Amendment issues, and trains and educates journalists and others across the state. Mel, a journalist his entire working life, was still plying his trade […]

    April 26, 2024