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Brown signs “Richard McKee bill” to tighten Brown Act enforcement

[…] Act was signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown last week. Known as the "Richard McKee Act," the legislation allows members of the public to send local government bodies a cease-and-desist letter if they believe government agencies have violated the Brown Act. The government agency can avoid a court case if it makes a […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
October 14, 2012
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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
September 2, 2021
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Update on open-government legislative proposals in Sacramento

[…] "basemap" data is used to create the base layer for all local computer mapping. The bill sought to exempt from the Public Records Act, which requires all government data to be available to the public, "metadata, listings of metadata and assembled model data". CFAC has filed suit to force Santa Clara County to make […]
- Government Transparency and Accountability
June 6, 2009
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The BALCO reporters had a slimy source, we now know. Did the reporters also get slimed?

[…] also a CFAC director), say the reporters (and their editors) showed bad judgment in relying on a demonstrably partisan source with a clear interest in derailing the government's investigation. Worse, say the critics, the reporters crossed a line once Ellerman used the reporters' stories to actively mislead the court – by lying about his […]
- Press Freedom
June 2, 2009
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The attacks in Paris are a clarifying moment for freedom of speech

[…] but also ideas and expression that are offensive, repugnant, even hateful. That proposition, while obvious in the abstract, is too often disputed in practice. Despite the French government’s post-attack embrace of the magazine, many cartoons in Charlie Hebdo are probably illegal under French laws criminalizing expression that is offensive and insulting on the basis […]
- Free Expression
January 22, 2015
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Senator Lieberman calls for misguided internet censorship, but the marketplace of ideas demands that free speech flourish.

[…] ideas compete more or less freely with each other. The First Amendment, which is predicated on a belief that the best ideas will win out, commands that government not interfere with this competition – no matter how tempting it may be to silence voices that are truly offensive, like those of terrorists. The technology […]
- Free Expression
June 3, 2009
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Responses to Peter Scheer’s Commentary on Vallejo’s Bankruptcy

[…] models secret is inexcusable. -Kevin Cummins Encinitas, CA From The Huffington Post: - A suggestion for a different way to fund public employee pensions: instead of the government entity gauranteeing a specific monthly dollar amount in retirement, to be paid out of tax income, have the government entity pay a negotiated amount into a […]

June 2, 2009
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Remembering FAC Founding Father and California Journalism Giant, Frank McCulloch

May 31, 2018
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Real outrage is that surveillance of AP reporters’ phone calls was probably legal

[…] the source of AP's leak before resorting to the AP subpoenas --including, for example, obtaining the same metadata for the office, home and cell phones of all government officials who had access to the classified information leaked to AP's reporters. Also, did the Justice Department obtain specific judicial authorization to subpoena the AP's phone […]
- Press Freedom
May 20, 2013
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Now Hiring: 2023 Legal Fellow

[…] to the health of our democracy – that the values expressed by the First Amendment provide a blueprint for an inclusive, equitable society and a responsive, accountable government. To that end, FAC educates, advocates and litigates to protect and promote government transparency and First Amendment protections for all. The Legal Fellow will report to […]

September 9, 2022