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Our
Programs: State Conference: 2006 Agenda
PARTNERS
FOR DEMOCRACY:
Working
Together for Government Access
Friday,
September 8
The
Omni Austin Hotel Downtown
700
San Jacinto St.
Austin,
TX
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AGENDA*
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8:00 – 9:00 am |
Registration
& Continental Breakfast |
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9:00 – 9:05 am |
Introductions:
Tim
Kelly, Conference Chair |
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9:05 – 9:45 am |
Keynote
Address
U.S.
Senator John Cornyn |
| 9:45
– 10:00 am |
Welcome:
Randy
Sanders, FOIFT President |
| 10:00
– 10:15 am |
Break |
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10:15
– 11:30 am |
Public
Records and the Internet: Oil and Water?
Moderator: James
Sibley, President, Title Data,
Inc.
Panelists: Cynthia
Figueroa Calhoun, County Clerk,
Dallas County
Gary Chapman, Director of the 21st
Century
Project, University of Texas at
Austin
Ann
Manning, Attorney, Underwood, Wilson,
Berry, Stein & Johnson, P.C.
Hadassah
Schloss, Cost Rules Administrator,
Office of the Attorney General
of Texas
Dianne
Wilson, Ph.D.,
County Clerk, Fort Bend
County |
| 11:30
– 11:45 am |
Break |
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11:45 am – 1:30 pm |
John Henry Faulk Awards Luncheon
Presentation of the James
Madison Awards
Guest Speaker:
TX
Attorney General Greg Abbott |
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1:30 – 1:45 pm |
Break |
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1:45 – 2:45 pm |
Legislative
Issues: The Public's Agenda
Moderator: Wanda
Cash, Distinguished Lecturer &
Fellow,
University of Texas at Austin
Panelists: Laura
Lee Prather, Attorney, Sedgwick,
Detert,
Moran & Arnold, LLP
Rep.
Mark Strama, Texas State Representative
Keven
Willey, Vice President & Editorial
Page
Editor, The Dallas Morning
News |
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2:45 – 3:00 pm |
Break |
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3:00 – 4:30 pm |
Friends
on the Frontline
Moderator: Marla
Crockett, News
Director, KERA 90.1
Panelists: Dr.
Don Carleton, Executive Director,
Center for
American History
Cathy
Hartman, Assistant Dean, Digital
&
Information Technologies, University
of North
Texas Libraries
Joe
Larsen, Attorney, Ogden, Gibson,
Broocks &
Longoria, LLP
Greg
Simpson, Chief of Open Records
Division,
Office of the Attorney General of Texas |
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4:30 – 4:45 pm |
Closing
Remarks and Adjourn |
*All
sessions are in the Austin room. The luncheon
is in the Lone Star room.
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