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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
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: [email protected] 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 […]
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- Press Freedom
February 26, 2024
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Government Secrecy Must Not Be the Legacy of Mass Shooting

[…] for ongoing secrecy is simply wrong — incorrect as a matter of longstanding California law and therefore a violation of the public’s fundamental right of access to government records. A judge granted an injunction sought by families of some of the deceased based solely on the existence of proposed legislation — legislation that never […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
October 6, 2021
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FAC Fights Unprecedented Effort by School District to Recover Nearly $500K From Records Requester

[…] requested public records under the California Public Records Act is legally meritless, unprecedented, and would cast an intolerable chill over the public’s ability to learn about their government. Newark Unified has asked the Alameda County Superior Court in California to order Elizabeth Brazil to pay the school district $449, 317.60 for time the district’s […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
February 6, 2018
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Extracting information from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) takes persistence and understanding one’s rights under FOIA

[…] that works closely with the city’s immigrant community, told CFAC, "We often act as a clearing house of information, by making alliances with the community, lawyers, local government and the press." ICE rarely volunteers specific numbers or names of persons detained in raids. In March , following several high-profile raids in San Rafael’s canal […]

June 2, 2009
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Digital strip-search: Case of lost iPhone prototype shows the danger of using search warrant to seize journalists’ information

[…] most professionals, a loss of this magnitude would be crippling, essentially bringing one's work to a complete halt for the duration of a police examination in which government agents have access, not only to business records, but also to one's most private files (medical and financial records, communications with family members, etc.). But for […]
- Press Freedom
April 30, 2010
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Special Districts: County Water District

[…] of the board of supervisors shall be as follows: 'The Board of Supervisors of the County of _____ ordains as follows.'" Special districts are subject to the Brown Act's requirements for noticing and hearing. See Govt. Code Sections 54950-54963; see also CFAC web site. In particular, the Brown Act provides that "t least 72 […]

June 14, 2009
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Selling property and public input

Government Code section 54956.8 permits a legislative body to meet in closed session to advise its negotiator concerning the "price" and "terms of payment" in connection with the purchase, sale, lease or exchange of property by or for the agency. A California appellate court stated that the purpose for the exception arises out […]

June 14, 2009