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Join us in urging the Governor to sign SB 914 to protect privacy and free speech rights

BY PETER SCHEER--Sitting on Governor Brown's desk right now is SB 914, a First Amendment Coalition-sponsored bill that would restrict warrantless police searches of citizens' cellphones. Won't you please join our Petition urging the Governor to sign this important safeguard of personal privacy and free speech rights. Why is SB 914 needed? Imagine you […]
- Free Expression
- Government Transparency and Accountability
September 21, 2011
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FAC Urges Immediate Dismissal of Charges Against Victorville City Council Member Arrested During Meeting

[…] explaining why the removal and arrest raise serious concerns under the First Amendment and Brown Act, which guarantee rights to freedom of speech and civic participation in local government. As the letter says, abuse of the power to remove and arrest an elected official or community member "threatens the fabric of democracy and open government."
- Government Transparency and Accountability
February 24, 2023
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Trying to access the transcript of a 911 call

[…] App. 4th 607, 615 (2003). The California Supreme Court has found that records regarding a call reporting a possible crime were investigatory records exempt from disclosure under Government Code § 6254(f). Haynie v. Superior Court, 26 Cal. 4th 1061, 1064 (2001). Given the circumstances you describe, the police department may claim that the transcript […]

June 16, 2015
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FAC Opposes Legislation that Would Weaken Police Transparency

[…] the administration’s choice to use a secretive budget process to try to gut important police transparency protections. "Openness, transparency and accountability are the first duty of democratic government," Legal Director of First Amendment Coalition David Loy said. "That is the first job of the government, not the last, and the public has a compelling […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 15, 2023
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Can they stop me from gathering signatures in a city-owned building?

[…] to petition. The following general information may be useful for analyzing the question. As you seem to know, the First Amendment protects the right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. The Supreme Court has "recognized this right to petition as one of ‘the most precious of the liberties safeguarded by the […]
- Free Expression
June 30, 2015
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Will mainstream media match Wikileaks’ technology for receiving leaked documents anonymously and securely? Not likely.

[…] of their communications with reporters, is an obvious benefit. Even more important is the media's desire to neutralize Wikileaks' advantage in the competition for access to sensitive government records. Wikileaks, on the strength of its promise of anonymity, has managed to insert itself as an intermediary between news sources and the news media, relegating […]
- Press Freedom
May 14, 2011
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Whining college students need lessons in tolerance and free speech

[…] so fearful of competing ideas? When did they become so emotionally frail that even the hint of criticism is seen as a hostile act from which they must be shielded (and for which perpetrators must be re-educated)? College students always say and do stupid things; it goes with the territory. But today’s students’ equating […]
- Free Expression
November 18, 2015
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Update on Open Government Legisation in Sacramento

[…] protecting their student’s freedom of the press, will be heard in the Assembly Judiciary Committee on June 10th. The bill passed out of the Senate and now must be heard in the Assembly Committee and, then, voted on by the Assembly. SB 1370 comes in the wake of 12 documented cases of journalism advisors […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Press Freedom
June 2, 2009
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Time to shed light on CalPERS’ private equity investments

[…] in federal court last week was shocking even by CalPERS’ standards. Frederico Buenrostro, CalPERS' top official from 2002 to 2008, acknowledged in his plea agreement with the government that he had taken $200,000 in cash bribes, delivered in paper bags and shoe boxes, to influence CalPERS’ investment decisions in private equity funds. The paper […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
July 15, 2014
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Shasta County Repeals Illegal Fee Law Following FAC and ACLU Demand

[…] California Supreme Court confirmed in 2020 that fees for ancillary costs like searching for and redacting records create an illegal financial barrier to transparency and accountability in government. After an investigation by FAC and ACLU, the organizations, representing news outlets Shasta Scout and the Record Searchlight, sent a letter to Shasta County to repeal […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
May 22, 2024