Californians Aware joined a coalition of more than 100 organizations on Thursday in urging the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to cease targeting of activists, journalists, and lawyers based on their First...
Read MoreTry bringing a pen to a swordfight. In individual conflict, stabbing and slashing can always silence words. But unregulated speech and writing > association > petitioning—a process collectively known as politics, is...
Read MoreTwo highly regarded First Amendment scholars at the U.C. Davis Law School have provided some locally (and generally) needed reminders about the difference between blockading others’ passage from place to place and other...
Read MoreSacramento’s got (legal) talent. Attorney Linda Parisi argued to extend and to limit First Amendment rights in criminal cases one floor apart in the courthouse last Friday, reports Andy Furillo for the Sacramento Bee. In...
Read MoreNational Public Radio, under new leadership after the departure of a top executive who shared the public heat for the firing of Juan Williams for a moment of candor a year ago, is now under the beginnings of a new siege for...
Read MoreOPEN GOVERNMENT — The Assembly Higher Education Committee on Tuesday approved SB 330 a reintroduction of last years SB 218 to apply the California Public Records Act (CPRA) to nonprofit 'auxiliary'...
Read MoreFREE SPEECH/FREE ASSEMBLY — In an update on the South West College (SWC) crackdown on faculty support for student budget cut protesters, Peter Bonilla notes that a key target for reform is the policy that treats all but a...
Read MoreFREE ASSEMBLY — When the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Police Department deployed against a crowd of demonstrators a long-range deafening gun used previously by our forces in the streets of Iraq, the "non-lethal" arms...
Read MoreFREE ASSEMBLY — "The police have no obligation to order a crowd to disperse before making arrests, a federal appeals court ruled today, marking a victory for the District of Columbia in a suit that alleges police...
Read MoreFREEDOM OF SPEECH/PETITION — A federal lawsuit has been filed against the City of Pomona and its police on behalf of more than 50 members of the Pomona Habla/Pomona Speaks coalition and others, involving an August 2008...
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