SPOTLIGHT: Freedom of Information Advocates
Freedom of Information Advocates (“FOIA”) aims to create an avenue for Berkeley Law students to gain practical skills and knowledge relevant to our free speech and access rights as investigative citizens. In step with the university’s history as the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement, Berkeley Law’s FOIA works with journalists and nonprofits to provide legal assistance on First Amendment, freedom of information, and other media law matters. Their primary partner organization, the First Amendment Project, is the oldest and most prominent local group working in this area. Further partnerships with UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (including the Investigative Reporting Program) offer participants the chance to recontextualize their legal training as a companion to fellow students’ investigative work.
To learn more about the Freedom of Information Advocates, visit our webpage.
Current SLPS
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- Animal Law and Advocacy
- Arts and Innovation Representation
- Berkeley Immigration Group
- Berkeley Law Anti-Trafficking Project
- Berkeley Law and Organizing Collective
- Berkeley Name, Image, and Likeness Initiative
- Business Community Legal Advice Workshop
- California Asylum Representation Clinic
- Clean Energy Leaders in Law
- Climate Migration & Displacement Project
- Consumer Protection Public Policy Order
- Contra Costa Reentry Project
- Digital Rights Project
- Disability Rights Project
- Drug Policy Project
- East Bay Dreamers Project
- Environmental Conservation Outreach
- Family Defense Project
- Food Justice Project
- Foster Education Project
- Freedom of Information Advocates
- Gun Violence Prevention Project
- Homelessness Service Project
- International Human Rights Workshop
- International Refugee Assistance Project
- La Alianza Workers’ and Tenants’ Rights Clinic
- Legal Obstacles Veterans Encounter
- Name and Gender Change Workshop
- Native American Legal Assistance Project
- Palestine Advocacy Legal Assistance Project
- Police Review Project
- Political and Election Empowerment Project
- Post-Conviction Advocacy Project
- Queer Justice Project
- Reentry Advocacy Project
- Reproductive Justice Project
- Startup Law Initiative
- Survivor Advocacy Project
- Tenants’ Rights Workshop
- Workers’ Rights Clinic
- Youth Advocacy Project