FOIL With Bob Freeman Thursday, November 19, 2009 Cairo-Durham High School
Bob Freeman, the Executive Director of the New York State Committee on Open Government, presented Open & Transparent Government through Freedom of Information Law and Open Meetings Law to a group of close to 50 community members at Cairo-Durham High School at the invitation of Durham For The People on Thursday, November 19, 2009.
Energetic,
Q&A-driven, and focused on the issues and concerns of those who
came to learn, Bob Freeman covered the bases on what citizens and
public officials alike need to know and understand about Openness &
Transparency in local government.
The program was held at
Cairo-Durham High School in Cairo New York through the gracious
hospitality of the Cairo-Durham School District. Introduction was given
by Sally Sharkey, School Superintendent, who turned the floor over to
Bob Freeman.
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Robert J. Freeman, Esq.
New York University, J.D. Georgetown University, B.S.
Mr.
Freeman is the Executive Director, New York State Committee on Open
Government, in Albany NY. In his capacity as the director of one of few
governmental entities in the United States created to deal with public
access to government information, Freeman has offered advice and
consultation to officials and scholars from around the world. He assisted
in the development of Japan's first access to records law, which has
served as a model for prefectural governments throughout that
nation.
Mr. Freeman has spoken or conducted seminars for the New
York State Bar Association, the Bar Association of the City of New York,
the New York State Society of Newspaper Editors, the New York City Press
Club, the American Society of Access Professionals, the staffs of numerous
newspapers throughout New York and various government and public interest
associations. He also has spoken throughout the United States, in Canada,
the Far East, Eastern Europe and Latin America.
Freeman is co-author
of New York's Freedom of Information and Personal Privacy Protection
Laws and has written approximately 17,000 advisory opinions on behalf of
the Committee on Open Government. He has prepared articles and guides in
various publications, including the New York Law Journal and the Legal
Handbook for Journalists published by the New York State Bar Association.
In 2000, he wrote "The Impact of Technology on the Freedom of
Information Law" and in 2003, "Police Review Boards Meet the
Public Right to Know", for the New York State Bar Association
Government, Law and Policy Journal.
DurhamForThePeople.org: Community Renewal and Growth Through Open & Transparent Government
Robert J. Freeman, Esq.
