Credentialed Media Workspace
Credential members of the CCAC are invited by the Legislature to use a temporary workspace in Room 440, on the fourth floor of the historic California State Capitol building.
The room is available from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. during weekdays at the California State Capitol and when the Assembly and Senate floor are in session. Please contact Assembly Speaker Press Secretary Cynthia Moreno if you need access to the workspace or have any questions via cell phone: (559) 321-6678 or email at Cynthia.Moreno@asm.ca.gov.
Keys can be accessed in the Speaker’s office (room 219) in the historic Capitol or by calling or texting Cynthia Moreno. You will need to use the sign in/sign out daily log, and deposit your ID to check out a key, and you must bring back your key when finished in the workspace to have your ID returned. You will be charged a replacement fee for a lost key. If you access the room but did not check out a key, please add your name to the daily log.
Press has the following floor access in the Senate:
- Credentialed press can access either side of the back of the Senate chamber (behind the pillars) during regular proceedings.
- In addition to the two dedicated press desks, three stadium seats are also reserved for press on the left side of the chamber, as you enter.
- Portable desks that can be hung on the back of the seats in the rear of the Chamber are available upon request from any of the Sergeants.
- Members of the press can take still photography or video from the back of the Senate Chamber so long as they do so safely and don’t create disruptions.
- Reporters may pass a note to request to speak to a Senator through the Sergeants. Quiet, off-camera interviews may take place in the back of the Chamber during session, or outside the Chamber in the corridor outside the wooden doors.
- Until the annex construction is complete, reporters can access the staircase landing from the second floor to the third floor for on-camera interviews while the Senate is conducting business in the Senate Chamber.
- Following session, on-camera interviews can also take place outside the Chamber in the corridor outside the wooden doors.
