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FAC To LAPD: Police Bodycam Footage is a Public Record and Must Be Released

[…] controversies about the police use of force have heightened tensions between the police and the communities they serve. Transparency—the ability of the people to see and know what their government is up to—is essential to the proper functioning of our democracy, including the role police play in it. Bodycam footage is essential to the fundamental right […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 8, 2017
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FAC Joins Coalition Urging SF Mayor to Restore Rights Under Sunshine Ordinance

FAC joined a coalition of media and transparency groups urging San Francisco Mayor London Breed to restore all aspects of the city's open- government ordinance, parts of which she suspended after the city declared an emergency due to the coronavirus pandemic. The letter to Mayor Breed sent Friday, April 17 by the Northern California […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
April 20, 2020
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First Amendment

FAC, ACLU Urge Temecula School Board and Its President to Halt Free Speech Violations at Meetings

Last week, FAC joined the ACLU of Southern California in demanding that the Temecula Valley Unified School District ("TVUSD") School Board stop trampling on the Brown Act and First Amendment. Since a new majority was elected in late 2022, the board has made a series of controversial decisions including firing the superintendent, banning "critical […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
August 22, 2023
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First Amendment

Brown vetoes bill limiting cellphone searches by police

[…] was based on the idea that a search of a cellphone is equal in intrusiveness to a search of one's office desk or bedroom. Just as police must have a warrant to search a desk or bedroom, so they should have to get a warrant to search a cell phone. In his veto message, […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
October 11, 2011
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The First Amendment protects journalists using Snowden’s documents. But what about Snowden?

[…] information, not a journalist who receives leaks. The difference is crucial: in the transaction between source and journalist, constitutional protections extend only to the latter. Specifically, the government is legally powerless to get a court injunction barring a journalist from publishing a story based on leaked information. And post-publication, too, journalists have special protections: […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
October 22, 2013
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The dark side of ‘sunshining’ government data online

[…] sets becoming available, and entrepreneurs building thousands of innovative applications. Then the ill-considered race to slash the Federal deficit started. The Obama Administration agreed to cut e- government initiative funding from $35 million to $8 million. Never mind that Kundra’s programs had already saved taxpayers $3 billion over the past two years. But were […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 29, 2011
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Sunshine Week Event: Inside the Fight for Public Information

Sunshine Week 2021: Join us for a discussion on navigating barriers to public records and fighting for open government Update: Check out the event recap. The coronavirus pandemic has made accessing public information more challenging than ever, with some governments refusing to even respond to requests for public records. Yet news organizations across the […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
March 2, 2021
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Successful outcome in FAC suit pulls back curtain on “deliberative process”

[…] because it was the product of an agency's decision-making process," the ruling said. "If that were the case, the Public Records Act would not require much of government agencies.'" Judge Haakenson noted that Mr. Schnapf had made a "focused" records request about documents shedding light on the "poison pill" provision which prevented the stream […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
August 23, 2015
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FAC News Press Release

NEW name, NEW website, Bigger role, Same mission

[…] many years has been involved in legal matters, including federal appellate cases, whose effects extend beyond California’s borders. More recently we have worked to curtail the Chinese government’s censorship of the internet, petitioning the Office of the US Trade Representative to challenge China’s "Great Firewall" as a violation of international treaties enforced by the […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
September 22, 2009
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Los Angeles Settles Suit Filed By FAC, Agrees to Retain City Records For At Least Two Years

[…] it must retain city records for at least two years as part of a settlement agreement reached today with the First Amendment Coalition--a victory for transparency and government accountability in the nation’s second-largest city, and an assurance that the public will have the access to city records to which it is entitled under California […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
September 20, 2017