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2010 Sunshine Week "Building Transparency"
March 24, 2010 8:30 am to 1:30 pm
Pacific McGeorge School of Law, Classroom C
3285 Fifth Avenue (N.W. corner of 5th Ave and 33rd Street)
Sacramento, CA 95817
Parking is FREE! Campus Map and Parking Areas A-J
Sunshine Week is a national initiative about the importance of open government and the freedom of information. The Sacramento Sunshine Wekk 2010 event is sponsored by the NOCALL Government Relations Committee (NOCALL-GRC), the Special Libraries Association Sierra-Nevada Chapter (SLA), with additional support from the CA Library Association (CLA) and the CA Association of Library Trustees and Commissioners (CALTAC).
Registration
You can register online here: http://units.sla.org/chapter/csrn/events.html
Or download the registration form and mail it to the address provided.
Important Dates
Registration Deadline – please be registered/sent it in postmarked by March 15, 2010
Programs & Speakers
| 8:30 am - 9:00 am |
Registration & Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am |
National Webcast
Viewing of the national Sunshine Week 2010 Webcast from Washington, D.C. On his first full day in office, President Obama committed his Adminstration "to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government." To help meet that goal, the Administration has issued an Open Government Directive and a new Memorandum on the Freedom on Information Act and Attorney General Guidelines. The Administration has also launched an expansive effort to open up data to developers, advocates, and the public via data.org.
The Building Transparency webcast features three panelists, all transparency experts from inside and outside government who will discuss these initiatives and their effect on the public. The first panel, featuring Norm Eisen, Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government Reform, will focus on the White House's efforts to imbed transparency in the system by, in part, requiring each agency to develop an open government plan, and post open government pages. During the second panel, our panelists, including Miriam Nisbet, Director of the new Office of Government Information Services (OGIS), will discuss how recent changes to law and policy affect a citizen's ability to request and receieve information from the federal government. During the last panel, developers and advocates will explain how they use government information like data on data.gov to make a difference for the public. |
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
Break/Networking |
| 11:30 am - 1:30 pm |
Sunshine Week panel:
Following the webcast, we will feature local open government and freedom of of information experts including:
Charity Kenyon, a Sacramento-based attorney and President of the California Academy of Appellate Lawyers, who will speak about her experiencs as an attorney reresenting news media before state and federal trial and appellate courts. A profile of Ms. Kenyon is available: here
Kenneth Peterson retired in January 2010 after serving 20 years as a judge. He was appointed to the Sacramento Municipal Court in 1990 by Governor George Deukmejian and was elevated to the Superior Court in 1992 by Governor
Deukmejian. For the last twelve years of his career, Judge Peterson served on the Court's Executive Committee from 1996 - 2009. Prior to being appoined to the brench, Judge Peterson served in the Sacramento County District Attorney's Office (1975-1981; 1983-1990) and the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of California (1982-1983). At various times through his career, he served on the Bench-Bar-Media Committee.
Marjie Lundstrom, Sacramento Bee Reporter and recipient of a journalism Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a series of stories she wrote with fellow journalist Rochelle Sharp about child abuse-related deaths that go unreported. |
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