Webcasts
Fifth Annual Freedom of Information Day Celebration - Friday, March 16, 2012
- Welcome and Opening Remarks/ Award Presentation and Keynote Address (01:02:11)
- Panel One: OGIS and the FOIA’s Future -- an inside look at the immediate successes and future plans of the Office of Government Information Services (01:09:23)
- Panel Two: Current FOIA Litigation -- a survey of current high-visibility FOIA litigation cases and what can be learned from them (01:16:50)
- Luncheon Address: “FOIA Over the Decades, From Ford to Obama” (00:44:48)
- Panel Three: Legislative Outlook -- a comprehensive view of FOIA activity in the 112th Congress from all four corners of Capitol Hill (01:18:05)
- Panel Four: Is Exemption 3 Out of Control? -- a critical review of existing agency use of twice as many Exemption 3 statutes as actually qualify (01:02:40)
Transparency in the Obama Administration: A Third-Year Assessment - Friday, January 20, 2012
- Welcome and Introduction / Keynote Speech (00:58:18)
- Panel One: The Open Government Status Report -- a critical review of the Obama Administration's September 2011 report of its open government policy successes and difficulties (01:14:13)
- Panel Two: "Do the Bucks Stop Here?" -- an assessment of the extent to which increased funding constraints now threaten to curtail open government initiatives across the executive branch (01:07:02)
- Luncheon Presentation (00:47:55)
- Panel Three: “CUI or See You Later, Part II” -- an inside view of the progress made to date and the prospects for success in harmonizing safeguarding labels under the rubric “Controlled Unclassified Information” (01:26:06)
- Panel Four: White House “Visitor Logs” -- an examination of the Obama Administration’s policy for disclosing and also withholding records of White House visitors, as rejected in Judicial Watch, Inc. v. United States Secret Service, No. 09-2312 (BAH) (D.D.C. Aug. 17, 2011) (appeal pending) (01:07:35)
Fifth Annual International Right-To-Know Day Celebration - Wednesday, September 28, 2011
- Welcome and Opening Remarks/Keynote Speaker (01:07:13)
- Transparency Worldwide: A Survey of Recent Developments (01:26:57)
- Freedom of Information in South Africa: A live video-link exchange with Johannesburg (00:38:38)
- Lucheon Presentation (00:18:54)
- Transparency Video (00:08:49)
- International Transparency Principles: A review of Draft International Principles on National Security and the Right to Information (01:04:03)
- U.S. Global Transparency Leadership: The New Open Government Partnership (01:25:30)
The Protection of Homeland Security Information - Wednesday, April 27, 2011
- Opening Remarks and Keynote Presentation (00:44:31)
- The Post-9/11 Continuum (01:01:16)
- High Noon for "High 2"...and Beyond (01:00:34)
- Luncheon Presentation (00:44:55)
- The Legal Effects of Leaks, Wiki or Otherwise (01:20:43)
Fourth Annual Freedom of Information Day Celebration - Monday, March 14, 2011
- Welcome and Opening Remarks / Award Presentation / Keynote Address (00:42:16)
- Panel One: Legislative Outlook -- an inside look at FOIA activity in the 112th Congress in both the House and the Senate and from both sides of the aisle (01:03:33)
- Panel Two: FOIA Privacy Issues -- a discussion of the privacy issues that divide agencies and FOIA requesters, as well as the current Supreme Court issue (“corporate privacy” in AT&T Inc. v. FCC) that does not (01:17:09)
- Luncheon Address (00:51:05)
- Panel Three: Case Study: Exemption 3 and the SEC -- a review of the controversy that erupted from a nondisclosure provision of the Dodd-‐‑ Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act this past year (01:01:43)
- Panel Four: FOIA in the Trenches -- a presentation of the inside perspective on the processes of FOIA administration by longtime agency FOIA personnel (01:10:25)
Transparency in the Obama Administration - A Second Year Assessment - Thursday, January 20, 2011
- Welcome and Introduction / Keynote Speech (00:48:04)
- Panel One: The Open Government Directive - an assessment of this year-old keystone of the Obama Administration’s transparency policy, with attention to the breadth of its related technology initiatives. (01:19:59)
- Panel Two: Freedom of Information Act Policy - a review of governmentwide implementation of the Holder FOIA Memorandum. (01:21:14)
- Luncheon Presentation (00:40:20)
- Panel Three: Executive Order Pas de Deux - an inside look at implementation of both Executive Order 13,526 on national security classification and Executive Order 13,556 on “Controlled Unclassified Information.” (01:50:35)
- Panel Four: Data Review - a critical analysis of statistics that are used and sometimes abused to measure agency change and performance on transparency issues. (00:50:42)
Fourth Annual International Right-To-Know Day Celebration - Tuesday, September 28, 2010
- Welcome and Introduction / Keynote Presentation: "Worldwide Transparency in the 21st Century" (01:24:44)
- Transparency in Scotland as Viewed at the Centre for Freedom of Information (00:50:56)
- The World Bank’s New Transparency Regime (01:27:40)
- Updated Survey of Transparency Worldwide (00:58:40)
Third Annual Freedom of Information Day - Tuesday, March 16, 2010
- Welcome and Opening Remarks / Introduction / Award Presentation / Keynote Address (00:43:30)
- Panel One: Big Freedom of Information Act Litigation Cases (01:19:26)
- Panel Two: Backlog Reduction Under the Open Government Directive (00:53:57)
- Luncheon Address (00:58:40)
- Panel Three: Pseudosecrecy, From SHSI to SBU to CUI (01:22:11)
- Panel Four: Exemption Three Going Forward (00:51:15)
Transparency in the Obama Administration - A First-Year Assessment - Wednesday, January 20, 2010
- Welcome and Introduction / Keynote Speech (01:04:00)
- Panel One: Freedom of Information Act Policy - a review of governmentwide implementation of the Holder FOIA Memorandum. (01:26:07)
- Panel Two: The New Office of Government Information Services (OGIS) - an inside look at OGIS’s start-up operations and its plans for 2010. (01:10:37)
- Luncheon Presentation (00:44:22)
- Panel Three: The New Executive Order on National Security - a discussion of new Exec. Order No. 13,526, with focus on both classification and declassification. (01:14:02)
- Panel Four: The Open Government Directive -- an analysis of this long-awaited keystone of Obama Administration transparency policy, with attention to the breadth of its related technology initiatives. (01:44:05)
The State of the State Secrets Privilege - Wednesday, November 18, 2009
- Welcome and Introduction / Congressman Jerrold Nadler, Chairman, House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties (00:43:50)
- Panel One: Background of the Privilege -- a foundation discussion of the state secrets privilege’s origin, its development, and its current status in the courts (01:35:56)
- Panel Two: Obama Administration Policy and Practice -- a critical examination of the Obama Administration’s emerging positions on the privilege and how they differ from positions advanced in litigation during the Bush Administration (01:19:42)
- Luncheon (00:48:21)
- Panel Three: Legislative Perspective -- an up-to-date view from Capitol Hill of the prospects for state secrets privilege reform by Congress (01:10:48)
- Panel Four: Idealized View of the Privilege -- a wide-ranging assessment of what, all things considered, the nature and scope of the privilege ought to be (01:23:20)
Third Annual International Right-to-Know Day Celebration - Monday, September 28, 2009
- Welcome and Introduction / Keynote Presentation: "Transparency in the UK and Beyond" (01:32:34)
- Kevin Dunion, Information Commissioner of Scotland, and Arne Fliflet, Information Commissioner of Norway (00:54:12)
- Survey of Transparency Worldwide (01:26:49)
- Restoration of U.S. International Transparency Leadership During the Obama Administration (01:08:20)
Privacy Protection After 20 Years Under Reporters Committee - Tuesday, April 28, 2009
- Welcome and Introduction / Keynote Address / Panel One: Reporters Committee Revisited (01:43:29)
- Panel Two: “Practical Obscurity?” (01:08:42)
- Luncheon (00:47:54)
- Panel Three: “Core Values” (01:06:02)
- Panel Four: The Future of Privacy Protection (01:10:59)
Second Annual Freedom of Information Day/Sunshine Week Celebration - Monday, March 16, 2009
- Welcome and Introduction / Panel One: Overclassification, Declassification, and Executive Order Change (01:12:59)
- Panel Two: "Bailing Out on Transparency" (01:01:43)
- Keynote Address (00:43:44)
- Luncheon Speaker (00:33:24)
- Panel Three: "CUI or See You Later" (01:07:55)
- Panel Four: "Born Digital But Preserved in Hard Copy?" (01:03:28)
- Panel Five: An Early Assessment of the Obama Administration (01:16:31)
Information Policy in the New Administration - Thursday, January 29, 2009
- Welcome and Introduction / Keynote Speaker (00:45:48)
- Panel One: Transparency Policy Recommendations (01:30:06)
- Panel Two: Broader Information-Policy Recommendations (01:13:21)
- Luncheon Speaker (00:43:51)
- Panel Three: View From Inside of Government (01:11:36)
- Survey of Change Priorities (00:44:15)
