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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

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    First Amendment

    Refusing Censorship: A High School Paper’s Fight For Press Freedom

    […] News. Ginny LaRoe directs the First Amendment Coalition’s educational and advocacy programs focused on advancing and defending free speech, a free press, and a more open and accountable government. She joined FAC, a California nonprofit, after more than a decade working as a reporter and editor at newspapers in five states, focusing on policing and […]

    February 23, 2023

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    CFAC joins amicus brief backing documentary journalist jailed for refusing to turn over out-takes to federal prosecutors

    […] as an investigator for the police. CFAC supports Wolf not because we agree with his politics, but because we stand beside all bona fide journalists from whom government seeks to compel disclosure of confidential sources or confidential information gathered in the course of reporting. Society is the poorer when news sources lose confidence in […]

    June 2, 2009

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    Public Meetings

    FAC, ACLU Oppose Temecula School Board’s Attempt to Throw Out Public Interest Lawsuit

    […] insisted the lawsuit should be dismissed under the state’s anti-SLAPP law. In response, FAC and ACLU’s brief argues that the anti-SLAPP statute does not apply to the governmental act of adopting an official policy, nor is the statute implicated simply because board members’ statements may be relevant to prove discriminatory intent. Even if the […]

    January 18, 2024

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    CPRA Police Records

    Obtaining names of individuals involved in an incident

    […] disciplinary measures, can only get it within the context of filing a lawsuit, and the courts have read this as exempting such files from the Public Records Act. However, at least one decision has ruled under similar circumstances that this should not prevent a newspaper from getting the names of the individuals that were […]

    June 14, 2009