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AB 1821 “looks a lot like an effort to evade accountability,” says FAC’s David Snyder. Lawmakers should reject AB 1821.
California could become the ‘most secretive’ state under new public records bill calmatters.org/politics/202...
"[AB 1821) would be a giant step backward on the government transparency and accountability front, putting California among the states that are the worst on access to government records,” FAC's David Snyder tells @@oaklandside.org. oaklandside.org/2026/06/17/p...
We and @facoalition.bsky.social fought an overbroad unconstitutional order telling the "public" at large to pull down a court record.
With (copious and generous!) help from @volokhc.bsky.social and @megangray.bsky.social, we won.
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The California Public Records Act is under attack. AB 1821 was dramatically expanded in the Senate, with provisions that would undermine the right to know. We are strongly opposed to this bill. firstamendmentcoalition.org/2026/04/09/f...
"Your government wants to be able to file a lawsuit against you for the mere act of submitting a records request it deems harmful or spiteful...It's a horrible precedent," writes @danborenstein.bsky.social at @mercurynews.com www.mercurynews.com/2026/06/16/b...
AB 1821 is an attack on transparency. We urge California lawmakers to reject this bill and protect the Public Records Act. www.ocregister.com/2026/06/16/e...
This story is a continuation of FAC-award winning investigative work by Candice Nguyen and the @nbcbayarea.com. See the full series (so far) here: www.nbcbayarea.com/investigatio...
Under AB 1821, getting public records would cost more and take even longer. Perhaps worst of all, it would allow government agencies to sue members of the public if the agency deems their request to be made with “malicious intent.”
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"[W]illing to risk lives for the sake of innovation."
After more than year of fighting @caloes.bsky.social for public records, newly released internal emails show the absolute chaos behind California's $456M Next Gen 911 upgrade.
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A couple of weeks ago, the litigants in the Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Products Liability Litigation multi-district case tried...
Under this bill, getting public records would be more costly and take longer. And it would allow government agencies to sue members of the public if the agency deems their request to be made with…
More than a year of digging by our NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit uncovers early warnings about California’s Next Generation 911 network and emergencies where help was delayed because of…
Newly released internal records show insiders on California’s troubled $456 million Next Generation 911 project lost confidence in the system’s chief architect years before he left the state agency…
