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Using Trade Agreements As a Tool to Further Rights of Free Speech

[…] the Beijing Olympic Games, a U.S.-based coalition is striving to keep the spotlight squarely focused on China. The California First Amendment Coalition (CFAC) is urging the U.S. government to launch a formal complaint against China at the Geneva-based World Trade Organization, alleging that the country's heavy-handed Internet censorship violates world trading rules. The CFAC […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 3, 2009
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Texas open meeting law supported by FAC amicus stands

[…] today. Earlier this week, FAC filed our own amicus brief written by Rex Heinke and Teresa Wang of the LA office of Akin Gump to defend local government open-meeting laws, like California’s Brown Act, from a potentially devastating national legal challenge. Rangra v. Brown is a rehearing of an appellate decision that struck down […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Meetings
September 11, 2009
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Special Commentary | You Have the Right to Record Law Enforcement Officers — Including at the Border

In a landmark settlement, the federal government was forced to concede that there is no border exception to this First Amendment right. Note: In April 2022, the First Amendment Coalition joined the ACLU of San Diego & Imperial Counties as co-counsel to help enforce the landmark settlement protecting the right to record at the […]
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- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 9, 2022
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Shame on Inglewood. Using copyright as a muzzle, the city files suit to censor a local critic

BY PETER SCHEER--Inglewood CA doesn’t have much to commend it. To the various reasons not to live there--like high crime rates and bankrupt schools---the city government has added this threat: if you criticize the mayor or other officials, the city will hire lawyers to censor you. That is the clear message to be drawn […]
- Free Expression
May 29, 2015
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Score one big victory for access to government data

In a long-running test case about government transparency and public access to government data, the First Amendment Coalition recently won a big victory. The California Supreme Court sustained FAC's claim that the State Bar—an arm of the judiciary that regulates lawyers—must disclose extensive data on applicants for admission to the Bar (minus their names […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
December 20, 2013
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Obama acts on FAC petition against China’s “Great Firewall”

October 19, 2011---The Obama administration on Wednesday said that, using World Trade Organization rules, it was calling on the government of China to answer detailed questions about its censorship of the internet--in particular, the blocking of websites of US-based businesses seeking to tap the vast Chinese consumer market. The announcement, which grows out of […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
October 20, 2011
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MuckRock, The New York Times, Bloomberg, and the North Coast Journal Honored with FAC’s Free Speech and Open Government Award

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: fac@firstamendmentcoalition.org SAN RAFAEL — The First Amendment Coalition is pleased to announce the winners of its 2023 Free Speech and Open Government Award: Thadeus Greenson of the North Coast Journal; Al-Amyn Sumar and David McCabe of The New York Times and Leah Nylen of Bloomberg; and nonprofit, collaborative news platform […]
February 26, 2024
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Last Call: 2021 Free Speech and Open Government Award Nominations Due

Nominations are due Friday, Jan. 14 for the First Amendment Coalition’s Free Speech & Open Government Award, given each year to recognize significant achievement in advancing freedom of information and expression. The award recognizes outstanding accomplishment, service or other contributions to the advancement of free expression or the people’s right to know about their government. […]

November 11, 2021
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IRS censorship of nonprofits must give way to the First Amendment

[…] under the First Amendment---particularly when applied to pure speech about political matters---the nonprofit community, in general, takes it in stride. One hears few complaints by nonprofits about government censorship of their political speech. But there is one segment of the nonprofit world to which application of the IRS rules is, or should be, totally […]

July 28, 2016
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FAC Seeks Nominations for 2018 Free Speech & Open Government Award

The First Amendment Coalition is soliciting nominees for the FAC Free Speech & Open Government Award, given each year for performance of exemplary work in the arena of open government. Qualifications for the award are outstanding accomplishment, service or other contributions to "the people’s right to know" about government. The winner, or winners, could […]

August 15, 2018