Today & Next Week: National Freedom of Information Act Day & Sunshine Week

Via Secrecy News:

Sunshine Week, a national campaign to promote openness and access to information, is March 16-22, 2008. Numerous events at the national and local level, as well as online, have been scheduled to encourage a public dialogue on transparency.

More information and abundant resources can be found here:

http://www.sunshineweek.org/

National Freedom of Information Act day will be observed on March 14 with a day-long conference sponsored by the First Amendment Center.

http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/press/information/topic.aspx?topic=FOI_Day

The recently-formed Collaboration on Government Secrecy at the American University’s Washington College of Law will hold a conference on Monday
March 17.http://www.wcl.american.edu/secle/founders/2008/031708.cfm

OpenTheGovernment.org will hold a webcast conference on Government Secrecy at the National Press Club on March 19.

http://www.openthegovernment.org/article/subarchive/109

Other national and local Sunshine Week events are noted here:
http://www.sunshineweek.org/index.cfm?id=6843