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FAC, ACLU, Fresnoland Demand Fresno City Council Stop Secret Budget Negotiations

[…] council’s budget committee has repeatedly met behind closed doors to finalize the budget in clear violation of the Brown Act, which guarantees the fundamental right to open government. According to Fresnoland, as the fifth largest city in California by population, Fresno stands alone in the top 10 by holding secret budget committee meetings. Although […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
September 6, 2023
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Tracy case tests the power of government officials to avoid disclosure of their emails on public business

[…] By Peter Scheer Those enterprising members of the Tracy City Council have come up with a strategy to hide from public view all their written communications about government business. With a bit of legal legerdemain, they claim to be able to evade state open-government laws, transforming their communications from public records into private correspondence. […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 2, 2009
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NSA surveillance case reflects a growing distrust in the federal judiciary

[…] a suit against the CIA by a victim (by all accounts, innocent) of the agency's "extraordinary rendition" program. The state secrets privilege is the mother of all government privileges because it typically requires, not merely the exclusion of certain evidence, but the outright dismissal of the lawsuit—even if the plaintiff's claims have merit. It's […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 2, 2009
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Leak investigation of Fox News’ Rosen crosses red line by obtaining journalist’s email contents, not just data

[…] Rosen, a reporter for Fox News. The criticism has focused on the revelation, contained in a 2010 FBI affidavit used to obtain a search warrant, that the government then viewed Rosen not merely as a witness, someone who possessed evidence about the source of a national security leak, but as an indictable law-breaker. Rosen's […]
- Press Freedom
May 29, 2013
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If China unplugs Google, it will be the first time China’s people will know what they are not being allowed to see. This should give the censors pause.

BY PETER SCHEER--Google's high-stakes confrontation with China's government has entered a new, and uncertain, phase. Making good on its threat to cease censorship of search results on its China-based site, Google.cn, Google has begun redirecting users in China to its uncensored Chinese-language site based in Hong Kong, google.com.hk. China's censors now face a difficult […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
March 24, 2010
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California AG Xavier Becerra and the Thick Blue Wall of Police Secrecy

By DAVID SNYDER—California Attorney General Xavier Becerra appears to believe there are two sets of rules about government transparency—one for his office, and another for everyone else. Back in 2017, when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) refused to disclose public records about EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s potential ethical conflicts, Becerra promptly sued under the […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
March 6, 2019
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A stunning end to the media’s 20-year losing streak in high court access cases.

Watershed CA Supreme Court decision is major win for government transparency By Peter Scheer America's highest courts are justly criticized for avoiding hard issues. The judicial fetish for deciding cases on the narrowest possible grounds yields opinions so limited and unambitious in scope that they often raise more questions, and generate more legal disputes, […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 3, 2009
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Behind the Headlines: How CBS Reporter Julie Watts Is Pushing for Police Transparency

[…] officers were not wearing body cameras, but Roseville PD officers were. And that agency refused to release more than four 39-second clips from their officers’ cameras. Open- government lawyers, like FAC’s David Loy, and lawmakers raised concerns that the decisions to withhold public records could have a ripple effect across the state and impact […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 27, 2024
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Brown Act

Public comment limited to three items on Water Quality Board agenda

[…] not already been considered at a meeting where members of the public had been allowed to comment. While the spirit of open meetings and public access to government deliberation may have been better served by allowing the public to comment on the permit as a whole, if the criteria set forth in § 54954.3 […]

April 14, 2010
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CPRA

City Clerk’s obligation to the CPRA

[…] your question to be whether the City Clerk has the obligation to comply with requests for public records in accordance with the California Public Records Act, California Government Code sections 6250 et seq.If my understanding is accurate, the answer is yes, the City Clerk must comply with the Act. The California Public Records Act […]

June 14, 2009