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    What are the free speech rights of public employees?

    […] employment at the school. While we cannot provide specific advice through this service, I can give you an overview of the First Amendment and its application to government employees. As a threshold matter, it is important to note that "public employees do not surrender all their First Amendment rights by reason of their employment." […]

    May 8, 2019

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    CPRA

    What are my rights when the Legislature’s Rules Committees haven’t responded to my request for legislative records for more than 10 days?

    […] records shall be made available for inspection promptly and without unnecessary delay." Govt. Code § 9074. Whenever a committee withholds any legislative record from inspection, the committee must justify in writing within four working days of the request that the record in question falls under an express exemption or demonstrate that withholding the record […]

    March 6, 2025

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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 […]

    September 17, 2024

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    Request a Training

    FAC hosts training sessions for the press and public on a variety of open government and First Amendment topics. Below are examples of sessions we offer, which can be conducted virtually or in person, and feature experts in First Amendment, public access, and newsgathering issues. If you would like to bring FAC to your […]

    June 12, 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 […]

    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 […]

    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 […]

    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 […]

    July 14, 2014