[MNASIS-L] Minnesota's 2012 Freedom of Information Day/Finnegan FOI Award Ceremony on Friday, March 23

[Janet Arth]

* Minnesota's 2012 Freedom of Information Day*

Amy Goodman will speak at Minnesota’s 2012 Freedom of Information Day and
Finnegan FOI Award Ceremony on Friday, March 23.

Award winning journalist Amy Goodman will be the keynote speaker at the
annual Freedom of Information Day and John R. Finnegan Freedom of
Information awards ceremony.  The event is set for 4 pm on Friday March 23,
2012 at the Hennepin County Library-- Minneapolis Central, Pohlad
Auditorium, 300 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, Minnesota.  This event is free
and open to the public.

Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national,
daily independent news program airing on over 1,000 public television and
radio stations in North America.  Goodman was one of dozens or journalists
arrested by Twin Cities police while covering demonstrations at the
Republican National Convention in St. Paul in 2008.  Her subsequent federal
lawsuit against local police and the Secret Service won a $100,000
settlement and a pledge by St. Paul police to implement a training program
about the First Amendment
rights of the press and public and the proper procedures for dealing with
the press while covering demonstrations.

Freedom of Information Day is usually commemorated each year on March 16,
the birth date of James Madison, champion of access and transparency in
government.  This year’s ceremony was moved to March
23rd to accommodate Goodman’s schedule.

Additional information is available on the MNCOGI website at www.mncogi.org

Or contact MNCOGI Chair Helen Burke at MNCOGI [at] gmail.org.

MNCOGI is a 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization committed to the public’s
right to know, the promotion of public access to government
information and transparency of government operations. MNCOGI Board
members are John Borger; Helen Burke, Chair; Kirsten Clark; Hal Davis,
Duchesne Drew; Don Gemberling, Secretary; Art Hughes; Gary Hill; Jane
Kirtley, Robbie LaFleur, Treasurer.

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Janet M. Arth, Systems Librarian
University of Minnesota Libraries Enterprise Technology
499 Wilson Library (mail)
569 Wilson Library (office)
309-19th Avenue South    email: arth at umn.edu
Minneapolis, MN              phone: 612-624-9860