FIRST AMENDMENT COALITION

On Sept. 16, FAC’s Peter Scheer, Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of UC Irvine School of Law, and a panel of distinguished law-enforcement access attorneys tackled issues of police secrecy and the public’s right to know about law enforcement tactics. If you missed the sold-out event, you’re in luck!  Watch the 90-minute video right now!

We also list them here to thank them and to acknowledge their expertise. FAC has had the good fortune of being represented by some of the best First Amendment and open-government lawyers in the country.

You might want to put on welding goggles and spf 50 sunscreen because more than a few sparks fly when FAC’s Peter Scheer and KPCC’s Frank Stoltze ask the panel of law-enforcement-access experts: “How much access to police records is warranted; how much is too much?

The Legal Hotline offers free access to FAC’s lawyers for questions about freedom of speech; access to government records; to agency and local government meetings; and to court documents and proceedings.

A&A is a searchable database of questions posed to users like you about their rights under public records laws, open government laws, and first amendment safeguards that have been answered by FAC’s attorneys.

When public officials conduct the public’s business using emails — from a .gov public account or their private email account–the public should have access. Easier said than done. FAC offers a simple, practical model policy for local governments’ management of email.