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  • Latest News

    FAC News Press Release

    David Snyder, Journalist and First Amendment Lawyer, Named to Head FAC

    […] levels of both professions, has been selected as the new Executive Director of the First Amendment Coalition. He takes over leadership of the free speech and open- government organization on January 1. Snyder is an attorney in the San Francisco office of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton, a global law firm. His practice includes […]

    November 18, 2016

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    Blog

    CFAC and MAPLight sue for public access to state’s legislative database

    […] the legislative process by linking campaign contributions to specific legislative actions. This will prove embarrassing to legislators. CFAC now has three test cases pending involving access to government-controlled databases. In addition to this one, we have sued Santa Clara County for access to its real estate parcel map database (for use in digital mapping […]

    June 3, 2009

  • Latest News

    Bush Signs FOIA Rewrite

    […] discounted processing and duplication fees that are available to the news media. Other important reforms include: Broadening the scope of information that can be requested by including government contracting information held by private contractors; Assigning public tracking numbers to all requests; Denying agencies that exceed the 20-day deadline for responses the right to charge […]

    June 2, 2009

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    Back Talk

    […] us..... -rcastevet ---- Quite a rant there rcastevet...four entries. Yet, I have never heard of an attorney representing an anonymous client. In any court proceeding, all parties must be identified publicly, unless such identification results in a danger to them or others, in which case the identity is made known only to the judge […]

    June 3, 2009

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    Cases

    Amici Briefs Digest – Sept. 2018

    […] Authored Amici ACLU 9th Circuit Appeal. On August 3, we filed an amicus brief in support of the ACLU of Northern California’s appeal of an adverse Privacy Act ruling against their clients, two editors of the website antiwar.com. Our amicus brief argues, in essence, that the lower court’s ruling would open the door to […]

    September 20, 2018

  • Posts

    Newsgathering Public Meetings

    Purported Shasta County Media Policy Threatens Press Freedom, FAC Writes

    […] County Board of Supervisors opposing its purported "media policies and procedures" described in a press release issued on July 29. At best, these policies create confusion, and at worst, they run counter to the Ralph M. Brown Act and First Amendment and threaten the ability of journalists to exercise editorial independence in covering government meetings.

    July 30, 2024

  • Asked and Answered

    First Amendment

    Can Home Owners’ Association Prohibit Political Signage?

    […] situation. Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP is general counsel for the First Amendment Coalition and responds to FAC hotline inquiries. In responding to these inquiries, we can give general information regarding open government and speech issues but cannot provide specific legal advice or representation. No attorney-client relationship has been formed by way of this response.

    January 19, 2021

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    CPRA

    Is CPRA 10-day deadline measured in calendar days or weekdays?

    The 10-day period referred to in Government Code section 6253(c) of the Public Records Act refers to calendar days, so weekends should be counted in your calculation as to when you should have received a response. The PRA does not require any waiting period between the time you send your original request and when […]

    August 23, 2010

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    FOIA

    Making a FOIA request to the Dept. of Homeland Security

    […] Coalition: http://www.nfoic.org/states The FOIA Project (Transactional Records Action Clearinghouse): http://foiaproject.org Holme Roberts & Owen LLP is general counsel for the First Amendment Coalition and responds to First Amendment Coalition hotline inquiries. In responding to these inquiries, we can give general information regarding open government and speech issues but cannot provide specific legal advice or representation.

    July 11, 2011

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    CPRA Police Records

    Police deny journalist’s request for suicide report

    […] to another, to sell a product or service to any individual or group of individuals, and the requester shall execute a declaration to that effect under penalty of perjury. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prohibit or limit a scholarly, journalistic, political, or government use of address information obtained pursuant to this paragraph.

    April 2, 2010