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CPRA

Does the California Public Records Act Allow Agencies to Extend Deadline for Retrieving Records from 14-Days to Months?

[…] extension. 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. No attorney-client relationship has been formed by way of this response.

May 21, 2020
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CPRA

Multiple CPRA Requests For A Decades Old Homicide Have Been Denied Without Explanation

[…] 6254(f)(1). 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. No attorney-client relationship has been formed by way of this response.

April 28, 2022
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We engage in public and legal advocacy around crucial issues affecting government transparency, press rights, and the people’s right to know, with a focus on California state and local policy and practices. This work includes influencing legislation, responding to threats to freedom of the press and freedom of expression, and enforcing freedom of information […]

June 11, 2024
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Q&A: FAC Legal Director David Loy on the right to honk your horn as a form of expression

[…] First Amendment Coalition is supporting a federal civil rights case brought by the ACLU Foundation of San Diego & Imperial Counties that aims to limit when the government can ticket someone for sounding their car horn to speak out (read our amicus brief). The ACLU’s case is on behalf of Susan Porter, a San […]

February 16, 2022
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Wilson v. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

FAC represents student journalist Elizabeth Wilson, who sued Cal Poly San Luis Obispo for violating the California Public Records Act by refusing to disclose public records for more than 18 months. CLOSED
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
April 23, 2024
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First Amendment Coalition and KQED v. Bonta

[…] exemption of the California Public Records Act, which sometimes allows withholding on the ground that a request imposes an undue burden. However, the court found that the government had not justified invoking the catchall exemption. After the case returned to the trial court, the Attorney General produced some records but withheld others based on […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
December 12, 2023
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FAC Joins Nationwide Coalition Urging Transparency and Access in Response to COVID-19

[…] letter to state, tribal and local public institutions raising concerns about transparency and access to meetings and records as these institutions respond to the coronavirus public-health crisis. Government bodies should not opportunistically take advantage of the public’s inability to attend large gatherings to make critical decisions affecting the public’s interest if those decisions can […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Meetings
March 20, 2020
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Legislature approves FAC-sponsored bill on cell phone privacy. Will Brown sign it?

[…] a warrant or other judicial supervision. (d) The intrusion on the information privacy and freedom of communication of any person arrested is of such enormity that it must require arresting officers to obtain a warrant to search the information contained in or accessed through an arrested's arrested person's portable electronic device, such as a […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
September 2, 2011
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Your right to COVID-19 outbreak data

Friends, The COVID-19 crisis led to public information shutdowns across the country, making it harder than ever to get reliable information about what our government institutions are doing in our name. That's why we have repeatedly called on public agencies to fulfill their obligations under freedom of information laws, despite the pandemic’s challenges. And […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
- Public Records
September 2, 2021
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Why the doom-and-gloom about the settlement in the Wen Ho Lee case? Under the circumstances, this deal is a victory for the press

[…] join in a settlement of an invasion of privacy lawsuit filed by Wen Ho Lee, an atomic scientist once suspected of espionage. Lee had sued the federal government for its leaking of damaging information about him to the press, which, in a flurry of articles in 1998, had rushed to the apparently premature judgment […]
- Press Freedom
June 2, 2009