“The Freedom of Information Act: Ensuring Transparency and Accountability in the Digital Age”

March 1, 2011

NOTICE OF COMMITTEE HEARING

The Senate Committee on the Judiciary has scheduled a hearing entitled "The Freedom of Information Act: Ensuring Transparency and Accountability in the Digital Age" for Tuesday, March 15, 2011 at 10:15 a.m. in Room 226 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.

By order of the Chairman.

Witness List

Hearing before the
Senate Committee on the Judiciary

On

"The Freedom of Information Act:
Ensuring Transparency and Accountability in the Digital Age"

Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 226
10:15 a.m.

Panel I

Miriam Nisbet
Director, Office of Government Information Services (OGIS)
National Archives and Records Administration
College Park, Maryland

Melanie Pustay
Director, Office of Information Policy
Department of Justice
Washington, D.C.

Panel II

Sarah Cohen
Sunshine In Government Initiative
Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism and
Public Policy Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

John Podesta
President and Chief Executive
Center for American Progress
Washington, D.C.

Thomas Fitton
President
Judicial Watch
Washington, D.C.