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FAC Honors the Brown Institute’s ‘Documenting COVID-19’ Project as 2020 Award Winner

The First Amendment Coalition today named the Brown Institute for Media Innovation its 2020 Free Speech & Open Government Award recipient for its "Documenting COVID-19" project, which created a massive clearinghouse of public records and produced accountability journalism in partnership with 30 newsrooms. The project set out to examine the decision-making of state and […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
February 9, 2021
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FAC Honors 2021 Free Speech & Open Government Award Winners

The First Amendment Coalition is pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 Free Speech & Open Government Award. Exposing the culture of secrecy in corporations. Putting sunshine on policing across California. Illuminating the toll the pandemic took on their neighbors. FAC’s 2021 honorees advanced freedom of expression or access to information through accountability […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
February 9, 2022
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FAC Free Speech & Open Government Award winners honored at Cal Press Foundation 138th Annual Dinner Banquet

The 2015 recipients of the Free Speech & Open Government Award competition were honored Thursday, December 3 at the California Press Foundation’s 138th Annual Meeting in San Francisco. The two winners of this year’s awards used different methods to accomplish their goals one upholding the finest traditions of community journalism and the other demonstrating […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
December 15, 2015
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FAC Attorneys Awarded $100k for Public Records Win

[…] and that the lawyers who so capably represented FAC’s—and the public’s—interest will be compensated for bringing to light records about misconduct at the highest level of city government." FAC was represented in the litigation by James Chadwick and Julie Bauman of the Sheppard Mullin law firm. Under the California Public Records Act, when government […]

October 23, 2018
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Court Rules Santa Clara County Must Disclose Parcel Map Database to California First Amendment Coalition

[…] analyses. Think Google Earth but with a local focus and specialized data. Used together with other publicly available data, the basemap allows citizens to monitor their local government on matters ranging from property tax assessments to zoning variances to street repairs. The basemap will also enable journalists to do reporting that would not otherwise […]

June 2, 2009
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Can the First Amendment Survive President Trump?

[…] it is precious. President-elect Donald Trump likes to talk about a future in which America will be great "again." Freedom of speech---in particular, the right to criticize government without having to whisper and look over one’s shoulder---is why, frankly, America is great now. Freedom of speech derives from a mere handful of words inscribed […]
- Free Expression
November 18, 2016
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California Supreme Court Stops Cities From Charging Steep Fees for Video Redactions

The California Supreme Court today issued an opinion preventing government agencies from charging the public for editing and compiling police body camera footage and other electronic records before the records are released. The First Amendment Coalition and the California News Publishers Association filed an amicus brief in the case, National Lawyers Guild v. City […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
May 28, 2020
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BART feud shows that censorship is never local

[…] never local. So, whether you live in the SF Bay Area or not, whether you ride the BART rail system or not, the recent actions of local government officials affected us all. Last Thursday, during the evening rush hour commute, BART shut down cell antennas in several of its San Francisco stations. According to […]
- Free Expression
August 24, 2011
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A California Perspective on AG Alberto Gonzales’ Problems

[…] assessments of prosecutors’ performance, and discussions of political strategy. As such, it is doubtful they ever would have seen the light of day in the Golden State. Government officials in California would block disclosure by invoking the "deliberative process privilege," California’s counterpart to the "executive privilege" in the federal system. But in Washington the […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 2, 2009
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Government Doesn’t Decide Who Is (and Isn’t) a Journalist

Donal Brown
- Government Transparency and Accountability
July 3, 2024