Long-time Executive Director Emily Francke Leaving to Pursue Medical Career CARMICHAEL — Californians Aware Executive Director Emily Francke has resigned her post to pursue a nursing degree at Columbia University. “She put her...
Read MoreFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New guide provides comprehensive legal guidance for citizens, journalists and public officials for open records law in California CARMICHAEL — CalAware announces that Terry Francke, the leading authority on...
Read MoreFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CARMICHAEL — Californians Aware (CalAware), a nonprofit organization co-founded by Richard McKee to improve transparency in government and defend free speech rights, has created a fund in his name to...
Read MoreFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CARMICHAEL – For the third time in five years, Californians Aware (CalAware) has tested state agencies’ responses to very basic requests for public records. Analysis of the results found no measureable...
Read MoreFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CARMICHAEL – A systematic check of how well California’s tax-supported education institutions respond to requests for public information shows a significant sample of K-12 school districts to be...
Read MoreFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CARMICHAEL – A systematic check of how well California’s tax-supported education institutions respond to requests for public information shows University of California campuses to be consistently slower to...
Read MoreFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CARMICHAEL – A systematic check of how well California’s tax-supported education institutions respond to requests for public information shows community colleges performing better than other government...
Read MoreFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CARMICHAEL – Californians Aware (CalAware) has advised the state associations representing most local government agencies that their members may be subject to short-notice lawsuits for some common...
Read MoreFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CARMICHAEL — This morning our vice-president for open government compliance, Richard McKee, and our attorney, Kelly Aviles, viewed documents provided by the Office of the General Counsel of California...
Read MoreFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Californians Aware, whose mission includes the promotion and defense of the principles of open government, filed a lawsuit today in Stanislaus County Superior Court against California State University,...
Read MoreFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CARMICHAEL – A new pocket guide to the law affecting news gathering and reporting in California, due to ship in mid-September, covers everything from rights of access to people, places, events and documents...
Read MoreFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Special Event: “Onwards and upwards: Where do we go from here?” August 9 – 6 p.m. This is a special event for Contra Costa County area residents. The Contra Costa Times recently published the...
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