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FAC Opposes Bills that Weaken Open-Meetings Protections

California lawmakers are considering bills that would weaken our open-meeting protections by allowing officials who serve on a variety of local and state government bodies to avoid showing up to work in person. FAC opposes: SB 544 SB 411 SB 537 Read our coalition’s opposition letters for SB 544, SB 411, and SB 537. What […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Meetings
July 12, 2023
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FAC Opposes Bill that Could Hinder Public Access to Meetings

FAC joined a coalition of civic groups to oppose California Assembly Bill 361, which would allow local governments to operate with less openness and evade transparency requirements of the Brown Act during a locally declared emergency. Read our coalition's letter in opposition to AB 361. Track AB 361.
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Meetings
April 2, 2021
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FAC Letter to Cal Poly Regarding Mustang News Reporter’s Public Records Requests

[…] about this case here. On June 16, 2023, the First Amendment Coalition sent the following letter to California Polytechnic State University – San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly) regarding its failure to comply with the California Public Records Act regarding five separate records requests by Elizabeth Wilson, a student journalist at Mustang News, the campus newspaper.
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
April 23, 2024
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California’s Computer Privacy Laws Require a Critical Update: SB 178 is it.

[…] documents of all kinds. Tell your assemblymember to support S.B. 178 (text of bill), the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (CalECPA), to protect our private digital lives from government overreach. California’s electronic privacy laws were written in, and for, the digital ecosystem of the 1970s and 80s. CalECPA is a major upgrade, critically important and long […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
August 20, 2015
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US relaxes gag order, permitting Google, Facebook et al to disclose scope of NSA access. But what if the firms don’t know the extent of NSA access?

[…] hardly matters how scrupulous the agency is in adhering to applicable legal rules restricting access through Google's front door. Google of course can't be transparent about the government's access to customer information when Google itself is aware of only part of that access. And Google's customers, particularly its customers residing outside the US, will […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
February 4, 2014
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US media shouldn’t rush to hang Murdoch’s News Corp for the sins of its London tabloids. Let’s wait to see the evidence.

[…] into public demands for a legislative response targeting American media companies. But, while checkbook journalism is deplorable, and though some of its American practitioners might even welcome government intervention to curb it, any legislative solution would be fraught with risks to free speech. The list of News Corp staffers who have resigned, including Les […]
- Press Freedom
July 18, 2011
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UCLA Turns Over Video of Contentious Event with Treasury Secretary After Public Records Requests Flood in

[…] release video or audio of the event. After UCLA refused to publish the video, groups—including FAC—responded by filing a flurry of requests under the California Public Records Act seeking the footage. FAC filed its request on March 1, pointing out that UCLA’s obligations to release records under the CPRA cannot be controlled or influenced […]
March 12, 2018
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The Tyranny of the Minority: A Post-Charlottesville Theory of the First Amendment

[…] the minority," in which a (vanishingly small) minority viewpoint has not only the protections of the First Amendment behind it, but the full force of the American government at its service So when free-speech advocates such as myself opine that white supremacist Richard Spencer and his supporters are entitled to First Amendment protection against […]
- Free Expression
February 6, 2018
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The Powerful anti-SOPA protests show why corporations, too, need First Amendment rights

[…] be a Ron Paul supporter to appreciate that, for corporations (like Google, Twitter, Facebook and Microsoft), there is nothing more intimidating than being in the cross-hairs of government law enforcement agencies, egged on by pissed-off members of Congress with power over the agencies' budget appropriations. Corporations, no less than individuals, need First Amendment protection […]
- Free Expression
January 20, 2012
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Thanks to AG’s threats to indict press in leak cases, reporters need not rely on 1st Amendment to protect sources. They can take the Fifth.

[…] one is implicitly admitting guilt. In fact, the Fifth amendment does not so much imply guilt as it does a refusal to be of assistance to the government in meeting its burden of proving guilt. Why offer to help a prosecutor who wants to put you in jail? But even if the implication of […]
- Press Freedom
June 2, 2009