2001 National FIO Day conference agenda

8 a.m. — Continental breakfast

8:30 — Welcome

• Peter S. Prichard, president, The Freedom Forum

8:35 — Introductions

• Paul K. McMasters, First Amendment Ombudsman, The Freedom Forum

8:45 — Court Records on the Internet: Too Much of a Good Thing?

• Moderator: Bill Ketter, Boston Globe
  Panelists:
  
• Judge Rudolph Kass, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Web Advisory Committee
  
• Carol Melamed, The Washington Post
  
• Bob Becker, Washington, D.C., attorney
  
• David Sobel, Electronic Privacy Information Center

10:00 — FOI Updates

• Moderator: James Grossberg, Levine Sullivan & Koch, L.L.P.
  Presenters:
  
• Steven Aftergood, Federation of American Scientists
  
• David Banisar, Privacy International
  
• Tom Blanton, National Security Archive
  
• Rebecca Daugherty, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
  
• Jim Keat, Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association
  
• Frosty Landon, Virginia Coalition for Open Government

• Moderator: Kate Martin, National Security Archives
  Presenters:
• Bill Chamberlin, Marion Brechner Citizen Access Project
  
• Anders Gyllenhaal, American Society of Newspaper Editors
  
• Patrice McDermott, OMB Watch
  
• Eliot Christian, Government Information Clearinghouse

11:30 — FOIA Hall of Fame

• Presenter: Jane Kirtley, University of Minnesota

12:15 p.m. — Blueprint for Transparency

• Presenter: Charles Davis, University of Missouri FOI Center

12:30 — Lunch

1:15 — James Madison Award

• Presenter: Nancy Kranich, president, American Library Association

1:20 — Keynote speech

• Speaker: John Podesta, former White House chief of staff

1:45 — Anti-Leak Legislation: Another Official Secrets Act?

• Moderator: Barbara Cochran, Radio-Television News Directors Association
  Panelists:
  
• Scott Armstrong, Information Trust
  
• Bill Kovach, Committee of Concerned Journalists
  
• Patrick B. Murray, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
  
• Jeff Smith, former general counsel, CIA

3:00 — Adjourn