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  • Handbooks

    Reporter’s Field Guide: Election Day Access

    […] voter to cast a private ballot free from undue influence with the need for a transparent process that builds and maintains trust in the system. This balancing act takes center stage on and around Election Day, when the law allows for observation of voting and vote counting processes while restricting some activities near and […]

    October 19, 2025

  • Posts

    Public Meetings

    FAC Requests Veto of SB 470, a Bagley-Keene Act Bill

    […] organizations requested a veto of SB 470, a bill that weakens the Bagley-Keene Act's public meetings protections. It extends provisions that allow officials who serve on state bodies and boards to participate in public meetings from undisclosed, remote locations, without a specific need or justification, despite existing teleconferencing flexibility that provide guardrails for the […]

    October 2, 2025

  • Asked and Answered

    First Amendment

    Can a school limit a teacher’s speech?

    […] condition public employment on a basis that infringes the employee’s constitutionally protected interest in freedom of expression.’" Garcetti, 547 U.S. at 413. However, "[w]hen a citizen enters government service, the citizen by necessity must accept certain limitations on his or her freedom." Garcetti, 547 U.S. at 418. Typically, whether a government employee’s speech receives […]

    April 1, 2025

  • Pages

    Why Support FAC?

    […] available and enforced for everyone, irrespective of wealth, politics or access to power. Every day, FAC’s team of First Amendment experts fight for these protections and for government transparency on multiple fronts, bringing our decades of experience to bear by using our model of integrated advocacy—litigation, public education, and policy advocacy—to attack violations of […]

    July 20, 2024

  • Cases

    Public Records

    San José Spotlight v. City of San José

    […] revelations that Liccardo directed a constituent to contact him on a personal email account to skirt public records laws. "I’m going to delete this email from my government account," Liccardo wrote to the constituent, according to documents obtained and published by San José Spotlight. As San José Spotlight and FAC attorneys told the court, […]

    July 19, 2023

  • Posts

    Court Access

    FAC to California Judiciary: End Court Secrecy Now

    […] public. Today’s letter is a part of these efforts, and was made possible by support from FAC’s supporters. In addition to open-court advocacy, FAC has worked to combat government secrecy throughout the public-health emergency, speaking out against efforts to weaken freedom-of-information laws, publishing new tools to help the public and press obtain records, and holding […]

    June 15, 2020

  • Posts

    California Assembly Bill 1479 Would Add Much-Needed Teeth to Disclosure Requirements Under the California Public Records Act

    One of the most frequent complaints FAC hears from people seeking records under the California Public Records Act (CPRA) is that government agencies simply ignore the law's requirement that the government respond to a request within a certain time frame.  One reason government agencies do this is that there is very little cost to […]

    April 20, 2017