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Opening Doors: Finding the Keys to Open Government 2009 Sunshine Week Program
NOCALL GRC and SLA Sierra-Nevada Region
Present
Opening Doors: Finding the Keys to Open Government
2009 Sunshine Week Program
When: Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Where: Pacific McGeorge School of Law
Gordon D. Schaber Library
3282 Fifth Avenue, Sacramento, CA 95817
Registration Fee: $15.00, which includes both Continental Breakfast and Lunch ($18.00 at the door).
Parking is free. Link to the map for Parking Areas A-J and the Library's location on campus at: http://www.mcgeorge.edu/x436.xml.
Sunshine Week is a national initiative about the importance of open government and the freedom of information. NOCALL GRC and the SLA Sierra-Nevada Region are presenting a two-part program, comprised of the national web cast from Washington, D.C., and a lunchtime panel of local speakers.
The program begins at 9:00 a.m. with registration and a Continental Breakfast.
Part I: National Web Cast, 9:30 - 11:00 a.m.
"Opening Doors: Finding the Keys to Open Government" will feature a panel of experts from around the country discussing government and secrecy - the problems, the impact on communities, and what the public can do.
Part II: Lunchtime Panelists, 11:30 - 1:00 p.m.
There will be a break between 11:00 and 11:30 a.m.
The lunchtime panelists of local experts, who are active in furthering open government, include:
- Terry Francke is General Counsel and Founder, Californians Aware, a non-profit organization established to help journalists and others keep Californians aware of what they need to know to hold government and other powerful institutions accountable for their actions. Mr. Francke has an extensive background in actively promoting open government to the citizens of California. Among his many accomplishments, Mr. Francke served as general counsel to the California First Amendment Coalition; was legal counsel for the California Newspaper Publishers Association; taught journalism law at Stanford's Department of Communication; and served as expert contributor to the 1994 major revisions to the Brown Act, and to the 2004 ballot proposition making open government a basic right of citizens under the California Constitution.
- Andrew McIntosh, a native of Canada, is the three-time winner of that country's highest journalism honor, the National Newspaper Award. He is currently a senior writer at The Sacramento Bee, where he serves as a public records and FOIA specialist. Among the honors awarded to Mr. McIntosh, he received the 2007 Society of Professional Journalists Excellence in Investigative Reporting for a five-part series on defects in the state's licensing for paramedics and emergency medical technicians. The series was picked up by CBS and NBC news, as well as the LA Times, and it led to the passage of new state law in 2008. His investigative series on the deaths and thousands of injuries caused by air-powered nail gun design flaws made him a finalist for Washington DC-based Understanding Government's Preventive Journalism Award in 2008.
Please register by March 18, 2009.
To pay with a credit card by PayPal, please link to:
http://units.sla.org/chapter/csrn/events.html.
If you prefer to pay by check, send the form with your check to the address below, and confirm that you sent both by emailing: psayers@ucdavis.edu.
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Phoebe Ayers, Physical Sciences & Engineering Library, One Shields Avenue, University of California, Davis, CA 95616-8676; telephone 530-752-9948; psayers@ucdavis.edu
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Space is limited. Individuals who do not register in advance will be admitted on a space-available basis.
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