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FAC Sues San Diego District Attorney’s Office for Sexual Harassment, Misconduct Records

[…] to allegations of sexual misconduct against its District Attorney’s Office. (You can read the filed petition below.) The office has refused to release the records, which clearly must be disclosed under the California Public Records Act (CPRA) and are of significant public concern. To date, the District Attorney has admitted to having records relating […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
July 27, 2018
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FAC Partners with MuckRock to Expand Reach of Open Records, Meetings Database

[…] in full on FAC’s website, is a compendium of questions submitted over FAC’s free Legal Hotline, followed by answers provided by FAC's attorneys, all first amendment and government access specialists at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, LLP, a global law firm. "FAC’s Asked and Answered database has helped thousands of people with their First Amendment […]

May 29, 2018
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FAC Names Suzanne Ito as Communications Director

[…] As the Strategic Communications Director at the ACLU of the District of Columbia, Ito worked closely with attorneys and policy staff on several First Amendment and open- government issues, including opposing harmful amendments to D.C.’s Freedom of Information Act before the D.C. Council and lawsuits over police treatment of protesters and a government agency’s […]

December 9, 2022
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FAC Lawsuit Prompts Disclosure of Records Alleging Misconduct by Milpitas City Official

[…] earlier "reverse CPRA" lawsuit filed by Williams prevented the city from releasing the records. Under a "reverse CPRA" action, any individual claiming to have an interest in government records sought by a CPRA request can preemptively seek to prevent the release of those records–sometimes before the person who originally requested the records has a […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
October 27, 2017
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FAC files suit for logs showing who visited LA’s County Assessor in jail

[…] and Gary Bostwick of the firm of Bostwick & Jassy in LA. FAC is a section 501C(3) nonprofit organization focused on issues of freedom of speech, open- government and government accountability. FAC’s other current litigation includes cases challenging sanctions against public records requestors; a FOIA suit for US Justice Department memos on the "targeted […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
March 1, 2013
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Europe’s High Court Has No Business Telling Google How to Edit Its Search Results

[…] see when they "Google" her in a job interview. But the issue is not whether she should have some recourse -- she should! -- but whether a government, any government, may dictate to Google what it may or may not publish in response to users' searches. This is a free speech issue, make no […]

May 14, 2014
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Ed Chapuis, Katherine Rowlands and Juliet Williams Join FAC Board of Directors

[…] the appointment of three new members to its Board of Directors, all working journalists who have made substantial contributions to their craft and to the cause of government transparency in California and beyond: Ed Chapuis, news director for KGTV-10 in San Diego; Katherine Ann Rowlands, owner of the Bay City News Service; and Juliet […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 14, 2018
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Inside The Fight For Public Records

[…] and former newspaper staff members Shiloh Johnston, Li Khan, Lylah Schmedel-Permanna, and Leo Premnath-Ray, along with journalism instructor and adviser Eleni Economides Gastis. FAC Staff The open- government experts of the First Amendment Coalition will provide a tutorial on how to get started with your own records requests and give an overview of free […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Press Freedom
January 31, 2024
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Can a journalist “plead the fifth” to avoid having to name a confidential source? A federal judge say yes.

[…] to testify about his source. U.S. District Judge Robert Cleland, declining to enforce the subpoena, ruled in November that Ashenfelter could not be compelled to reveal his government sources because doing so would subject him to a risk of criminal prosecution. The fifth amendment defense is not a substitute for a strong federal shield […]
- Press Freedom
December 16, 2013
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Camera-shy, yes. But the Supreme Court also shares the raw data of its most important deliberations.

The Supreme Court is the branch of government that works hardest to be seen least. By banishing cameras from their courtroom, eschewing probing press interviews, and generally keeping a low profile (except in their published opinions), the justices strive to preserve the fiction that they take their cues directly from the text of the […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
April 25, 2013