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  • Latest News

    FAC News Press Release

    Ed Chapuis, Katherine Rowlands and Juliet Williams Join FAC Board of Directors

    […] the appointment of three new members to its Board of Directors, all working journalists who have made substantial contributions to their craft and to the cause of government transparency in California and beyond: Ed Chapuis, news director for KGTV-10 in San Diego; Katherine Ann Rowlands, owner of the Bay City News Service; and Juliet […]

    June 14, 2018

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    Advocacy Blog

    Despite the complaints of blogger-critics, new federal shield bill is last best chance for meaningful protection of reporters’ confidential sources.

    […] apply to the subpoenas of federal courts and federal grand juries: a big gap in coverage that inevitably restricts news reporting on controversial matters involving the federal government. News of the Obama Justice Department's overzealous investigation of leaks to the press--in particular, leaks of information to the Associated Press and to James Rosen of […]

    September 17, 2013

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    Blog

    Camera-shy, yes. But the Supreme Court also shares the raw data of its most important deliberations.

    The Supreme Court is the branch of government that works hardest to be seen least. By banishing cameras from their courtroom, eschewing probing press interviews, and generally keeping a low  profile (except in their published opinions), the justices strive to preserve the fiction that they take their cues  directly from the text of the […]

    April 25, 2013

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    Be part of the FAC for All campaign

    […] pandemic. Journalists under attack. A nationwide cry for social justice and police accountability. This past year’s extraordinary events highlighted like never before the importance of FAC’s work combatting government secrecy and standing up for free speech, a free press and the public’s right to know. With your support, FAC has mobilized to protect these rights — […]

    August 24, 2021

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    Are Myths Killing the Newspaper Business?

    […] cards. Q. That’s it? A. No. There’re a couple of other things that come out of my years as a lawyer for news organizations. I don’t think government financial support for journalism is a good idea, but there are some government actions that might ease somewhat the pressure on newspapers. Here are a few […]

    February 24, 2010

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    Cases

    Amici Briefs Digest, March 2, 2017

    […] free-speech and media organizations in an amicus brief to the California Supreme Court, arguing that the press and public are entitled to emails or texts relating to government business that are sent by government officials on their personal email accounts or phones. The California Court of Appeal held that such communications are not subject […]

    March 3, 2017

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    Blog

    After near-death in Supreme Court, will public employee unions change their ways?

    […] as though there had never been an appeal to the Supreme Court). The issue before the Supreme Court was whether the compulsory funding mechanism common to all government unions--those representing teachers, police, firefighters, prosecutors, and more, both at the state and local levels---was unconstitutional. How so? Because, claimed the teachers, requiring workers to pay […]

    March 30, 2016

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    CPRA Police Records

    Accessing police Internal Affairs reports

    Government Code Section 6254.7, part of California's Public Records Act, relates to air pollution, housing code violations, and trade secrets, and is probably not the provision you have in mind.Section 6254(f), also part of the PRA, exempts from disclosure most records of investigations conducted by police agencies (see below for text of Section […]

    September 20, 2010