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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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    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

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    Lies, bigoted rants and snuff videos: Why defense of free speech often entails defense of seriously unsavory characters.

    […] speech having no social value can't be proscribed without also suppressing speech that does have social value. Even more than we dislike hate speech we fear a government that has the power to decide what speech will be heard and what speech will be silenced. Constitutional safeguards for speech that really matters--political speech, informed […]

    February 7, 2012

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    Latest FAC suit secures release of Sonoma County Superbowl Contract

    […] Host Committee for the Super Bowl—- contained so many trade secrets that it couldn’t be released in redacted form. We were skeptical that a contract involving a government agency, and providing opportunities for tourism promotion, could be chock full of the kind of sensitive business and financial information constituting "trade secrets." Now that the […]

    March 9, 2016