Times are subject to change:

8:00 Registration opens with Continental breakfast, coffee/tea available
8:30 - 9:30 FOIA fees (after a brief welcome from VCOG): Jake Conley, Jim Spencer, Robin Wallace, Robert Zullo
sponsored by Sage Information Services
9:30 - 10:00 General Assembly update: Alan Gerhnardt
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 10:45 The case for model FOIA legislation: Joy Ramsingh
10:45 - 11:15 Citizen activists: Natalie Miller Moore and Laura Mollo
sponsored by FAVOR of Virginia
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30 Privacy vs. the right to know: Heidi Hertz, My'chael Jefferson-Reese, Michael Shafer, Lin Weeks

Invited/confirmed panelists

• Jake Conley, formerly of The Breeze

• Heidi Hertz, Cozen O'Connor

• My'chael Jefferson-Rose, Chesterfield County public defender

• Alan Gernhardt, FOIA Council

• Natalie Miller Moore, strategic communications consultant

• Laura Mollo, Richlands citizen

• Joy Ramsingh, Ramsingh Legal

• Dan Schmitt, Henrico County Board of Supervisors

• Michael Shafer, Roanoke

• Jim Spencer, The Daily Progress

• Robin Wallace, City of Staunton

• Lin Weeks, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press

• Robert Zullo, Virginia Mercury

COVID mitigation

We know some of you will be concerned about being in a group setting. We take that concern seriously, which is one reason we picked Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden -- easy access to the outdoors -- and cut our usual programming down from a whole day to a half-day. We will be in a large room that can accommodate 80 people sitting at large round tables, with high ceilings and doors that open to the lobby.
We will also have disposable N95 masks and hand sanitizer onsite.

REGISTRATION IS CLOSED

Registration includes...
- breakfast & coffee throughout the morning
- complimentary access to the gardens
- the option to tour the Virginia ABC Distribution Center in Mechanicsville at 2:30 p.m. The tour is made possible by Maria Everett, chair of the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority Board, former director of the FOIA Council and current member of the VCOG board of directors, and VABC's CEO, Travis Hill.