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    FAC News Press Release

    FAC Receives $100k Gift from Craig Newmark Philanthropies

    […] grateful to Craig Newmark Philanthropies for this generous gift, which will allow us to continue and expand our fight for speech and press freedoms, public access to government records and meetings, and civic engagement," said FAC Executive Director David Snyder. A democracy can only thrive when the entire public participates, and is included, in […]

    June 20, 2019

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    FAC Pays Tribute to Late Journalist Tim Crews

    […] founder, publisher, editor and owner who reported, took photos, sold ads and even delivered copies — had an outsized impact on the community he covered, crusading against government secrecy, and on the journalism profession, once serving five days in jail to protect a confidential news source, an ordeal that prompted a state law change. […]

    January 5, 2021

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    Blog Cases

    FAC Joins Brief Urging California Supreme Court to Hold That Internet Content Providers Have a Right Under the First Amendment to Defend Speech on Their Websites

    […] the notion that publishers of content—not just the creators of that content—have free speech rights.  It also potentially weakens the robust protections provided to online content providers by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, 47 U.S.C. section 230. Read the amicus brief in Hassell v. Bird here: FAC Joins Amicus on Hassell v. Bird

    April 20, 2017

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    Blog Cases

    FAC Defends Press Freedom in Marin Photographer’s Case

    […] against Portje, who was booked a month before on suspicion of battery of a police officer and obstructing police work. Second, on Dec. 29, counsel for the government said in court that police had not and would not review the contents of Portje’s gear and would work out an agreement with Portje’s attorney to […]

    January 4, 2022

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    FAC amicus brief: agency can’t take back records mistakenly released

    FAC has filed an amicus brief in a case testing a local government agency’s power to take back records it has released to a requester under the CPRA. The Newark Unified School District, in releasing documents, mistakenly included records that were subject to the attorney-client privilege. The school district demanded return of the documents […]

    January 24, 2015

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    Donald Sterling may be a racist, but denial of his rights (to privacy and free speech) devalues those rights for all citizens

    […] private conversations with our spouse, with other family members, and with best friends. Absent a warrant based on probable cause, these conversations are not the business of government or of strangers who would do us harm. Fundamental to the principles of the First Amendment (freedom of speech) and the Fourth Amendment (personal privacy) is […]

    April 30, 2014

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    Disclosure–or the lack of it–is a major cause of the current financial crisis

    […] value of collateralized securities tied to home mortgages--so that buyers and sellers can resume trading them, even at heavily discounted values. The financial markets are like representative government. Just as democracy requires transparency so that voters can hold elected officials accountable, so the financial system requires transparency so that investors can understand and place […]

    June 3, 2009

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    Advocacy Blog

    Despite the complaints of blogger-critics, new federal shield bill is last best chance for meaningful protection of reporters’ confidential sources.

    […] apply to the subpoenas of federal courts and federal grand juries: a big gap in coverage that inevitably restricts news reporting on controversial matters involving the federal government. News of the Obama Justice Department's overzealous investigation of leaks to the press--in particular, leaks of information to the Associated Press and to James Rosen of […]

    September 17, 2013

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    FAC News Press Release

    Craigslist founder Craig Newmark joins FAC Advisory Board

    […] focuses his energy and resources on philanthropic endeavors. In 2011 he launched craigconnects as a platform to support organizations involved in work for veterans and military families, open government, public diplomacy, trustworthy journalism, consumer protection, election protection, and voter registration. He also serves on the board of directors of the Poynter Foundation, Center for Public Integrity, […]

    March 1, 2016

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    FAC News Press Release

    Clara Hogan Named as FAC’s Communications and Programs Director

    […] Executive Director David Snyder.  "Her arrival at FAC, in this era of sharp political division and of threats to transparency and free speech at all levels of government, could not come at a more important time." Hogan received her BA in Journalism from the University of Iowa, where she worked as a reporter for […]

    September 13, 2017