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FAC Condemns Kern County for Violating Local Man’s First Amendment Rights

[…] state agency about handling of his public records requests. The letter explains why county counsel's threat of legal liability under a state law called the False Claims Act is not only baseless but a First Amendment violation. FAC Legal Director David Loy calls on County Counsel Margo Raison to immediately withdraw the office's speech-chilling […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 28, 2022
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Public Records

FAC, ACLU Letter in Support of Tuolumne County’s Proposed Repeal of Public Records Fee Ordinance

[…] the Tuolumne County Ordinance Code, which allows the county to charge for staff time to search for, compile, and deliver records in response to California Public Records Act requests. The letter notes that while the county says it has not charged fees since 2019, the fees are unlawful and the ordinance should be repealed […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
February 5, 2024
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FAC-backed bill, AB 521, would require disclosure of water usage by corporations

The California Legislature will consider a FAC-backed bill to narrow the CPRA’s exemption for information on water usage by customers of government water districts. The bill, AB 1520, would reverse the outcome of an unsuccessful lawsuit filed by FAC against the Coachella Valley Water District in 2014. The CPRA for nearly 20 years has […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 30, 2015
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FAC Opposes Threats to a Free Press by City of Cypress

[…] the First Amendment was designed to preserve a free press as a vital source of public information, and gratuitous attacks on the press undermine that principle. The government exists to "serve the people and defend the Constitution, not to ‘sit as some kind of journalism review seminar.’" Even if the results of the votes […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
September 25, 2023
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FAC Opposes Legislation That Would Harm Your Right to Know

Act now to ensure a state agency can’t shield police misconduct records Just two years ago, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a landmark police accountability law, SB 2, that gave the state the ability to strip abusive officers of their badges. Now the Newsom administration wants to cancel the transparency part of that […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 21, 2023
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Your First Amendment Rights and Press Freedom on Election Day

[…] theACLU(available in English and Spanish) The Disinfo Defense Toolkitfor organizers and advocates byPEN America United States Journalism Emergency Fundby theInternational Women's Media Foundationin partnership with Craig Newmark Philanthropies KEEP OUR RESOURCES FREE FAC's open- government guides, Legal Hotline and other resources are free and available to all thankstosupporters like you. Considermaking a tax-deductible donationto FACtoday.
- Government Transparency and Accountability
November 3, 2020
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What it Costs to Fight Government Secrecy | A Message from David Snyder

[…] year, you know that FAC has broken new ground in 2021 in our fight to protect a free press and the public’s right to know. We’ve forced government agencies to unseal thousands of pages of previously secret records. We’ve armed journalists and lawyers with knowledge and expertise to defend free-press rights. And we’ve been […]

November 22, 2021
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Water district, in settlement with FAC, agrees to disclose water usage by corporations

[…] of utility customers of local agencies . . ." FAC, in its lawsuit, argued that this exemption is limited to residential customers, while information about corporate customers must be made public. "We’re very pleased that the Desert Water Agency, reversing course, has agreed to disclose information that is so obviously a matter of public […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
October 30, 2014
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Victory for Transparency: CA Supreme Court Rejects Police Union Effort to Gut Landmark Police Transparency Law

In a significant victory for government transparency and accountability, the California Supreme Court today denied a police union’s last-minute effort to undermine the effectiveness of a new, landmark police transparency law, rejecting the union’s effort to make the law (SB 1421) apply only to records created after January 1, 2019. The First Amendment Coalition […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
January 2, 2019
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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