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FAC Victory in “Reverse CPRA” Case: Court Orders Disclosure of Records Alleging Misconduct by Milpitas City Official

In an important win for government transparency, a Santa Clara Superior Court judge has ruled that the city of Milpitas must release documents relating to allegations of serious misconduct by former city manager Tom Williams. The city originally withheld the documents based in part on a "reverse California Public Record Act" lawsuit filed by […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
May 3, 2018
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FAC Urges California Supreme Court to Require Transparency in Clemency Proceedings

[…] the California Supreme Court to require more transparency in an important area of the criminal justice system: the justices’ oversight of executive clemency. In California, the governor must seek approval from the state Supreme Court to pardon or commute the sentences of one category of applicants, those twice convicted of felonies. But that process […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
January 13, 2021
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FAC Sues Ventura County Sheriff for Violating Public Records Act

The First Amendment Coalition today sued the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office over its failure to comply with public records requests seeking information about deputy misconduct and serious use of force. The lawsuit comes after FAC attempted to pull back the veil of secrecy on deputies’ most violent interactions with the public and any instances […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
March 30, 2021
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FAC sues Novato to compel release of secret emails

[…] under the CPRA because they are subject to the "deliberative process privilege," which protects certain records that reveal policymakers’ decision-making. However, not all records relevant to officials’ deliberations receive this protection. A government agency must also show that the public interest in keeping a specific record secret is greater than the public interest in disclosure of the record—a high standard. "The […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
July 13, 2016
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FAC sues LA council over destroyed public records

A new lawsuit filed by the First Amendment Coalition against Los Angeles highlights local governments’ all-too-common---and illegal---practice of destroying public records. The suit, filed Thursday in Superior Court for Los Angeles County, focuses on documents that went missing when a termed-out council member, Tom LaBonge, left office in 2015. Thousands of documents about city […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
August 26, 2016
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FAC Prevails in Effort to Force CA Attorney General to Disclose Police Misconduct Files

A San Francisco judge today ordered California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to begin disclosing police-misconduct files sought by the First Amendment Coalition (FAC)—a victory for government transparency against one of the few remaining police agencies in the state to refuse to comply with Senate Bill 1421, California’s new landmark police transparency bill that went […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
May 17, 2019
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FAC Obtains Clemency Records in 6 California Cases After Challenging Secret Docket

[…] filed in other courts, underscoring why there is no valid argument for complete secrecy. "The governor has taken the position that every last page of these files must be secret — a position that is as impossible to support legally as it is facially ridiculous," said FAC Executive Director David Snyder."FAC will continue to […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
December 23, 2019
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FAC Mourns Death of Lifelong Government Transparency Champion Daniel Ellsberg

[…] Court case New York Times v. United States, which remains at the bedrock of First Amendment law. The case stands for the proposition that prior restraints — government preventing speech from going forward — are essentially verboten under the First Amendment. It is a crucially important bulwark for free speech and a free press. […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 16, 2023
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FAC and ACLU of Northern California Welcome Mendocino County’s Repeal of Public Records Fee Ordinance

[…] review, or redact documents people asked for under the California Public Records Act. The law, passed last July, received widespread condemnation from the public, journalists, and open government advocates. One local media organization, the Mendocino Voice, has been assessed fees in excess of $76,000 since the law was passed. Mendocino was not the only […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
May 9, 2023
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As he leaves the Justice Dept, AG Holder is buffing his 1st Amendment credentials

[…] suspected leakers of national security information--and those investigations inevitably led to battles with journalists over information about their confidential sources. But as Holder gets ready to depart government--his successor, Loretta Lynch, has been nominated and is awaiting confirmation---he has been taking steps to leave behind a different legacy. While these steps won’t win him […]
- Press Freedom
January 23, 2015