Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, will give this FOI Day program’s luncheon keynote address.
Panels will address:
· Overclassification, Declassification, and
Executive Order Change – an analysis of national security classification
under existing Executive Order 12,958, as well as the prospects for its
revision.
· “Bailing Out on Transparency” – a critical
consideration of the openness limitations of the government’s recent “TARP,”
financial industry bailout, and economic stimulus-related activities.
· “Born Digital But Preserved in Hard Copy?” – discussions
of E-Gov and records-management practices as vital foundations of all disclosure regimes,
with emphasis on much-needed reforms.
· “CUI or See You Later” – an up-to-date look
at the continuing murky world of “pseudosecrecy.”
· An Early Assessment of the Obama
Administration – in the two months since President Obama stunned the
openness-in-government community and federal workforce alike with his strong
pro-disclosure words and “Day One” transparency and FOIA memoranda, has that
momentum carried forward or has it lagged, including as to implementation of
the 2007 FOIA Amendments?