Please join us for Sunshine Day from noon to 4 p.m. Monday, March 11, 2013 at the McKimmon Center on the NC State University campus (located at 1101 Gorman St., Raleigh, N.C.).
Please join us for Sunshine Day from noon to 4 p.m. Monday, March 11, 2013 at the McKimmon Center on the NC State University campus (located at 1101 Gorman St., Raleigh, N.C.). Pre-registration is now available online at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9LMZ8BM and via download HERE. You may also register with the form attached to this release. The event is sponsored by the Sunshine Center of the North Carolina Open Government Coalition and N.C. State University Student Media. Speakers include veteran journalists and government officials from North Carolina and numerous experts and advocates for open government. We encourage citizens, journalists, government employees, librarians, attorneys, public officials, students—anyone and everyone—to attend. At this event we will also introduce new open government initiatives.
We’re also pleased to extend an invitation to government officials and staff to attend a pre-conference session on the topic of responding to records requests from 10:30-11:30 a.m. on March 11, also at the McKimmon Center. There is no additional charge to attend this session, which will be led by UNC School of Government professor Fleming Bell and North Carolina Press Association General Counsel Amanda Martin.
Main Conference Schedule:
- 11:30 a.m.: Registration
- Noon: Lunch and Keynote address by Professor Lucy Dalglish, Dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland
- 1:25 p.m.: Timely Access to Public Records from the Investigative Reporter Perspective by News & Observer Investigative Reporter Dan Kane
- 1:40 p.m.: Access to Public Records: Panel Discussion on the UNC Football Investigation
Dick Baddour, former UNC Director of Athletics
Amanda Martin, General Counsel to the NC Press Association
Jon Sasser, Attorney for former UNC Football Coach Butch Davis
Kevin Schwartz, The Daily Tar Heel Director/General Manager - 2:45 p.m.: Government Gets it Right: Spotlight on Sunshine Initiatives
Jim Sides, Chair, Rowan County Board of Commissioners
Russell Allen, Raleigh City Manager
Effie Varitimidis, Guildford County Clerk - 3:30 p.m.: Civics Curriculum Interactive Case Study led by Paul Bonnici, Project Director of the NC Civic Education Consortium
- 3:50: Closing Comments
Regular Registration Cost: $30 (includes lunch).
Student registration cost: $18.
Add $10 and join the NC Open Government Coalition for 2013 (normal annual dues $25).
You may also sponsor a table at the event. A full table (eight seats) is $400, and half a table is $250.
Questions? Contact Sunshine Center Executive Director Brooke Barnett at bbarnett@elon.edu or (336) 278-5659.