Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Autumn Sunshine

Whether you're a citizen journalist, a researcher, or just a promoter of an informed electorate, the NC Open Government Coalition's "Sunshine Center" and the City of Greensboro are sponsoring two workshops that should prove useful. The presentations take place tomorrow, October 22, at 2pm and 7pm, at the Greensboro Historical Museum (get directions) and both are free and open to the public.

The 2pm workshop will focus on NC's open meeting law and requests from media. The 7pm workshop will emphasize NC's public records law and FOIA requests. Both presentations will feature representatives from Elon University's School of Law to anwer questions and provide a review of state legislation.

We have laws in place that protect our right to information, but they only work when we know how to use them.

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