Resistance is hard but not futile. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...
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NEW: In my DOGE FOIA case with @facoalition.bsky.social Judge Boasberg ordered DoJ to ask Sean Duffy For Elon’s phone number. @nationalsecuritylaw.org is it normal to tell a witness to talk to a separate lawyer about whether or not to respond to you? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
One battle after another.
The principal of El Capital High School banned senior quotes from the high school yearbook, saying parsing the "modern slang" of the quotes would be too difficult to vet. FAC and @splc.org note the ban violates state law, urges the principal to rescind it. firstamendmentcoalition.org/2026/02/18/f...
Congrats to @oaklandside.org , winner of a @spj-norcal.bsky.social award for challenging Alameda County's sideshow observer law. “We cannot do our jobs when we’re not allowed to tell the public what’s happening in their city," says @tasneemraja.bsky.social oaklandside.org/2026/02/18/o...
@facoalition.bsky.social sent a letter to Imperial County counsel: “Perhaps a federal agency or official would prefer that the County not disclose the requested records, but the Supremacy Clause demands compliance only with laws of the United States, not mere wishes.”
We hope the principal at El Capitan High School reverses course and rescinds the yearbook quote ban. Michael Chen of @abc10news.bsky.social has an update with comment from the yearbook editor www.10news.com/news/we-foll...
That’s 💯 percent the right political response by the Board of Supervisors.
The official’s actions were plainly unconstitutional — based on this own statements.
Read the letter by @davidloy.bsky.social for @shastascout.bsky.social
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A California county’s top election official excluded journalists he doesn’t like from receiving press releases.
Today, in response to @facoalition.bsky.social’s advocacy for @shastascout.bsky.social, these actions got a strong rebuke by the board that hired him.
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The answer to speech you dislike is more speech, not #censorship. voiceofoc.org/2025/10/cypr...
FAC is representing @shastascout.bsky.social in this letter to Shasta County's elections official after he said the outlet was not "legitimate" and illegally removed her from a media release distribution list.
Government secrecy fuels corruption. Transparency fuels accountability. That’s why FAC challenges government secrecy head-on. Support FAC: firstamendmentcoalition.org/support-fac/
One could do worse than be called a “visceral antitotalitarian.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/w...
In Los Angeles, LAPD and the LA Sheriff have also violated journalists' rights as they try to report the news. In California, reporters have additional protections. See our letter with 24 other groups: firstamendmentcoalition.org/2025/06/11/c...
With @spj-norcal.bsky.social, FAC sent this letter to the San Francisco police chief noting officers' detaining, shoving, and obstructing journalists from doing their jobs covering protests. This is unacceptable. firstamendmentcoalition.org/2025/06/11/f...
@nppa.org has joined again w/several of our 1st Amendment & free press allies in a letter to the LAPD & LASD remind them of journalist’s rights. See below.
We remain steadfast in our mission to make sure 1st Amendment rights are upheld across the United States of America. 🇺🇸
Are you a journalist covering LA protests?
Check out our digital security guide on how to protect yourself, secure your communications and protect the information on your devices: freedom.press/digisec/blog...
The deployment of federal agencies to LA may be getting the headlines, but many of the most serious abuses have come from local police.
We helped lead a letter to the LAPD and LASD reminding them of journalists' rights and the liability they're risking: media.freedom.press/media/docume...
Journalists must be allowed to do their jobs without fearing for their lives. “The First Amendment is the First Amendment regardless of who you report for or what your perspective is,” says @davidloy.bsky.social.
Law enforcement is violently targeting press at protests around Los Angeles, from easily recognizable "mainstream" outlets to freelancers and independents. ALL press have explicit legal protections in California. #JournalismIsNotACrime.
This evidence thread may get graphic. 🧵👇
#USA: RSF condemns the wave of violence – at least 27 separate attacks – that swept across journalists covering protests in Los Angeles this weekend. Violence against journalists trying to do their jobs is unacceptable. #JournalismIsNotACrime rsf.org/en/usa-rsf-c...
28 press rights orgs joined a letter to DHS Secretary Noem, calling out acts against press during this weekend's protests in Los Angeles.
I won't be naive about impacts of one letter. But we are united for our free press, and this puts them on notice about points of law and policy.
More soon.
The targeting of reporters in LA is inexcusable. The public interest in press coverage of protests couldn’t be more self-evident.
We helped lead this letter to remind federal officers of journalists’ constitutional right to report on civil unrest.
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RTDNA is proud to be a signatory on this letter. Whenever a journalist is attacked, the ultimate victims are the people that journalist serves.
With 24 other orgs, FAC condemns the treatment of journalists covering the protests against ICE raids in LA. Targeting journalists violates the First Amendment.
firstamendmentcoalition.org/2025/06/09/c...
This is appalling. Purposefully attacking journalists violates the First Amendment.
With the escalating attacks in Los Angeles on our free speech rights & right to assemble/protest, I am sharing some resources. First, our protest rights guide @freepress.bsky.social in English & Spanish!
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“If Paramount capitulates here, they will be eviscerating perhaps their most precious journalistic assets …not to mention their own reputation and shareholder value,” said @normeisen.bsky.social.
“Beyond that, Paramount will be harming the First Amendment itself. They should not yield.”
To stand against abuse of power means to know that “power will be ill used by your friends as well as by your enemies, by your political opponents as well as by your neighbors.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...
When the leopard eats its own face. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...