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We’re Hiring: Press Education Manager

[…] education programs. This is a chance to play a key role at a leading California nonprofit that does important work to support California journalists’ ability to access government information to keep communities informed. The new position is a dream job for someone with an investigative journalism or journalism education background who is passionate about […]

January 22, 2025
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Journalists must be allowed to do their jobs while government officials do theirs

The homelessness crisis is one of the biggest issues facing California. To understand the human toll of housing insecurity and to assess the efficacy of government response, we depend on journalists to sort fact from fiction. And to bear witness when governments take action. That is especially true when it comes to sweeps of […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Press Freedom
September 17, 2024
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SB 331, a secrecy bill masquerading as a transparency bill, deserves a veto

BY PETER SCHEER--I’m always suspicious of legislation that increases government secrecy. But what really gets my attention is legislation that purports to make government more transparent---when in fact its true purpose and effect are just the opposite. SB 331, which is awaiting the Governor’s signature, is just such a sham: an official secrecy act […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
September 16, 2015
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Victory in the Ninth Circuit for FAC and for Government Transparency

[…] of drone strikes to kill American citizens abroad. In a unanimous ruling, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit held that FAC is entitled to have the government pay FAC’s attorneys’ fees for its five-year legal battle with DOJ over the release of the so-called Drone Memos. "The Ninth Circuit’s decision is a vindication […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
August 25, 2017
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The first amendment is in trouble when EU bureaucrats get to decide what US citizens can read on US-based websites

[…] law. A first amendment red line had been crossed. A major publisher of information--which is what Google, in its search business, most emphatically is--had been directed by government authorities to censor its content. But the impact on free speech could soon get much worse. Google has received over 186,000 requests for deletion of search […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
December 15, 2014
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Snowden, go home

[…] him. By postponing this reckoning, he adds to skepticism about his motives. More important, he diminishes his legitimacy as a whistleblower who broke the law to expose government overreaching, change official policy, and vindicate principles of government transparency and individual privacy. Snowden has portrayed his accessing, copying and distribution (to selected journalists) of NSA […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
July 14, 2014
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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 […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Press Freedom
February 26, 2024