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Submit Your Nominations for a 2024 Free Speech & Open Government Award!

Nominations are now open for the First Amendment Coalition’s 2024 Free Speech & Open Government Awards! These annual awards honor the year’s best contributions towards the advancement of open government and freedom of expression and information. Perhaps you’re a journalist who wrangled some particularly important public records for a story. Or you’re an activist […]

December 17, 2024
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Cal Poly Student Settles Public Records Lawsuit Against University

[…] in a Public Records Act lawsuit against the Board of Trustees of the California State University (CSU) system. FAC represents Elizabeth Wilson, a student journalist at the Mustang News, the student paper at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly). "I’m so pleased Cal Poly has agreed to a settlement, but it […]

November 1, 2024
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Doe v. Mill Valley School District

FAC is representing Holly McDede, a freelance reporter, in a lawsuit that seeks to prevent the release of documents covered by the California Public Records Act ("CPRA"), also known as a "reverse-CPRA" case. McDede covers sexual misconduct in schools, and has previously written about other school employees’ misconduct.
- Government Transparency and Accountability
October 31, 2024
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Unlocking Public Records in California

For this October 26 training session, FAC’s open- government experts focused educating journalists on using the California Public Records Act to tell important stories. The training offers tips and tricks for overcoming barriers to information. The session featured Omar Rashad, government accountability reporter for Fresnoland, who shared insights on how to use public records […]

July 22, 2025
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FAC Writes in Support of Reporter Disparaged By Elected Official Following Public Records Request

[…] and Public Trust of Fresno State today called on a California public official to apologize for insulting a reporter and to take seriously his obligations under open- government laws. The letter to Tom Wheeler, a member of the Madera County Board of Supervisors, comes after Wheeler responded to a reporter's public records request with, […]
- Press Freedom
January 22, 2021
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FAC Urges Mendocino County to Adhere to First Amendment Protections in Establishing Media Program for PRA Requests

[…] Ordinance is lawful," FAC writes in its Aug. 29, 2022, letter, "we submit this letter to explain that any definition of ‘media organization’ the County might adopt must comport with strict First Amendment standards." The California News Publishers Association and the Freedom of Information Committee of the Northern California Chapter of the Society of […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
August 30, 2022
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FAC Calls on California City to End Unconstitutional Public Comment Policy

[…] actual disruption of a meeting. Indeed, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has held that virtually identical language is unconstitutional. No matter how intemperate, criticism of government and public officials is the core of what the First Amendment protects. As one court said over 40 years ago, "In America, one who seeks or […]
- Free Expression
- Government Transparency and Accountability
August 8, 2022
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CA Senate Bill 1421 Would Bring Desperately Needed Transparency to Police Misconduct Files

[…] agencies subject to the California Public Records Act) in being able to keep secret even confirmed allegations of misconduct. For everyone except police officers, investigations into misconduct must be made public if the charges are "well-founded," or if discipline is imposed. California has long been an outlier in the degree to which it allows […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
April 9, 2018
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Unplug Wikileaks? Enact a Federal Shield Law Instead

[…] has made no secret of its desire to unplug wikileaks, the whistleblower website infamous for data dumps of classified records. Of the few options available to the government, the best is one that probably hasn't been considered in this context: enacting a federal Shield Law. How would a Shield Law–a version of which has […]
- Press Freedom
November 16, 2010
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To force the paparazzi to clean up their act, turn the cameras on them

[…] them by name and by the websites and publications that buy their photos and videos. This will add to the pressure on them to clean up their act. Finally, let’s not shed too many tears about the celebrities who make an avocation out of complaining bitterly that paparazzi are ruining their lives. Celebrities who […]

June 3, 2009