Eileen Boeing currently serves as the Clerk of Council, FOIA Officer (for non-PD records) and Records Officer for the Town of Leesburg. Boeing began her career with the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) working with franchised commercial truck dealers for more than a decade and most notably serving as the Associate Director of the division. Boeing’s experience includes working at the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) on developing civil engineering industry standards, work in local government serving in the Town of Purcellville’s Public Works Division and most recently as a Program Manager and Director of Customer Support for global aerospace supplier Zodiac Aerospace. Since joining the Town, Boeing and her team have transitioned many of the old labor-intensive manual processes to automated processes including agenda package preparation, boards and commissions applications, personnel action forms and Freedom of Information Act requests. 

Senator Creigh Deeds has represented the 25th District in the Senate of Virginia since 2001. He is the Co-Chair of the Judiciary Committee and Chairs the Behavioral Health Commission and the Capital Outlay Subcommittee. Creigh also serves on the following standing committees: Commerce and Labor, Finance and Appropriations, Privileges and Elections, and Rules. Prior to his service in the Senate, Creigh served in the House of Delegates for ten years and for one term as the Commonwealth’s Attorney for Bath County. He is a lawyer in private practice. Creigh and his wife, Siobhan, live in Charlottesville.

Master Police Officer Michael Drogin currently serves as the Public Information Officer and the FOIA Officer for the Leesburg Police Department, and has held these roles since 2019. Officer Drogin has been in law enforcement since 2005 and has been with the Leesburg Police Department since 2008. During his career, Officer Drogin has held a variety of positions including patrol officer, street crimes detective, and general assignment detective specializing in financial crimes.  As the PIO and FOIA Officer, Officer Drogin works with many community members and community groups on a daily basis to address their concerns, which range from quality-of-life concerns to crimes.  Officer Drogin has additionally created a Community Trust Through Transparency webpage, a Weekly Incident Report, and compiles his department’s annual report in order to increase the Leesburg Police Department’s transparency to the community.

Llezelle Agustin Dugger is the elected Clerk of Court for the City of Charlottesville Circuit Court. She began her first term on Jan. 1, 2012, and started her second term on Jan. 1, 2020. Prior to that, she was an Assistant Public Defender for the City of Charlottesville and the County of Albemarle from 2000 to 2011. During that time period, she also served as an elected Member of the Charlottesville City School Board from 2008 to 2011. Llezelle received her J.D. from the College of William & Mary School of Law and her B.A. in political science from the University of California at Berkeley. She and her husband, Alan, have been married for over 30 years and have two daughters, Lauren and Allison.

Joshua Heslinga is the Director of Legal & Legislative Services and the designated FOIA officer at the Virginia IT Agency (VITA), the central IT agency in the executive branch of state government. Prior to joining VITA in 2019, he worked in the Technology & Procurement Law section of the Office of the Attorney General for eight years and in private practice. Josh serves on the board of directors for the Virginia Coalition for Open Government. https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshuaheslinga

Jessie Higgins is the managing editor at Charlottesville Tomorrow, a nonprofit news organization in Charlottesville, Virginia. She leads a small team of reporters who cover local issues in the city and surrounding counties. She has 10 years experience as a community-focused, investigative journalist in multiple states. She has reported many stories in which access to public records — or lack thereof — was central to the community's understanding of important issues.

Holly Jones is the Policy Regulatory Manager in the Governance and Legislative Affairs Division at the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT).  She has been at VDOT since 2003.  She has served as the designated FOIA Officer for VDOT since 2013.  In addition to processing FOIA requests, she is also responsible for coordinating the state legislative review process for the agency.    

Nate Jones is the FOIA director for The Washington Post where he works with reporters to target documents to request, appeal, and sue for. He works with reporters to obtain local, state and federal records and to think strategically about public records in all formats. He gives FOIA training sessions and advises reporters on how to write, refine, and track requests, navigate delays and overredactions, and overcome other bureaucratic resistance. He has served two terms on the Federal FOIA Advisory Committee and holds a JD from the University of the District of Columbia. He previously was the director of the FOIA Project for the National Security Archive where he used FOIA to write a book about the 1983 Able Archer nuclear war scare. 

Ian Kalish is a Legal Fellow at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and a lecturer at the University of Virginia School of Law, where he teaches in the First Amendment Clinic. His practice includes matters of defamation, government employee speech, right to protest, and access to public records, and he frequently litigates in state and federal court. Through his work with the UVA Clinic, Kalish has successfully compelled the release of state and federal public records on behalf of journalists. He also oversees VPA's FOIA Hotline, assisting journalists across Virginia navigate issues surrounding public records and open meetings law. Prior to joining the Reporters Committee, Kalish was a Lecturing Fellow at Duke Law’s First Amendment Clinic. Kalish began his career as a litigation associate at Cahill Gordon & Reindel. 

Alice Minium is a writer, journalist and researcher from Richmond who founded OpenOversightVA, a searchable database of law-enforcement officers in Virginia. The project relies on a combination of public records requests, open source research, and primary sources to maintain a database of law enforcement officers and archive of complaints against these officers in Virginia. OpenOversightVA maintains records on over 26,000 police officers in the state and over 216 agencies. When she's not writing or working on OpenOversight, she is working with Tidewater Solidarity Bail Fund to support pretrial detainees in need of material support for bail. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Christopher Newport University with a secondary focus on history, graduating with honors as a member of the Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society and Sigma Tau Epsilon Honor Society.

Richard has served as the Independent Police Auditor in the Fairfax County Office of the Independent Police Auditor since its establishment in April 2017. He has reviewed well over 50 Fairfax County Police Department criminal and internal investigations, and issuing a public report after each review. Prior to becoming Fairfax County’s Independent Police Auditor, he served over 27 years in the F.B.I., the last 17 in the F.B.I.’s Office of the General Counsel. A native of New Orleans, Richard graduated from Loyola Law School in New Orleans as is a member of the U.S. Supreme Court Bar and the Louisiana State Bar.

David J. Toscano served 14 years (2006-20) in the Virginia House of Delegates representing the 57th District, which includes all of Charlottesville and parts of Albemarle County. First elected in 2005, David’s priorities included education, renewable energy, environmental protection, affordable healthcare, reproductive rights, expanded services for the disabled and poor, and reforms to Virginia’s adoption and foster care laws. He was the Democratic leader in the House of Delegates from 2011 to 2018. Prior to serving in the state legislature, he served 12 years on Charlottesville’s City Council, including a stint as Mayor.