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How Can I Request All Audio and Video of My Arrest?

[…] your request, can be found on the First Amendment Coalition’s website here. Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP is general counsel for the First Amendment Coalition and responds to FAC hotline inquiries. In responding to these inquiries, we can give general information regarding open government and speech issues but cannot provide specific legal advice or representation.

August 8, 2020
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Public Records

FAC Urges UC Berkeley to Comply with Records Request Regarding Human Remains Found on Campus

FAC has called on the University of California, Berkeley, to comply with the California Public Records Act (CPRA) and respond to a CPRA request by Berkeley Scanner journalist Emilie Raguso. Raguso seeks emails to and from Tom Mucha, a Cal employee, regarding the skeleton found in an unoccupied building on campus in January 2023. […]
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March 13, 2024
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FAC Urges California Courts to Ensure Public Access Amid COVID-19 Emergency

[…] concerned members of the press and public will face insurmountable barriers to access judicial records and proceedings. The coalition makes a number of recommendations: First, telephonic hearings must be conducted on conference lines that make some allowance for free public usage. And dial-in information must be readily available to the public in advance of […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
March 25, 2020
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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 […]
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- Government Transparency and Accountability
September 21, 2011
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First Amendment

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