LEGISLATIVE WATCH 2010:  CLICK HERE FOR NEWS FROM THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, BILLS INTRODUCED AFFECTING GEORGIA CITIZENS' ACCESS TO OPEN RECORDS AND OPEN MEETINGS.

The 2010 Georgia Bar Media & Judiciary Conference will take place on February 27, 2010.  The 2010 Weltner Freedom of Information Banquet will take place later in 2010, and the date will be announced soon. Click here to view a photo gallery from the 2009 Weltner Freedom of Information Banquet honoring former Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears. 


More than a decade has passed, and we're just getting started teaching Georgians that we have sunshine laws -- the Open Meetings Act and the Open Records Act.

Our goals are:

• transparency in government;
• vigorous, unbridled practice of the freedom of information;
• understanding, and not ignorance, of our rights of freedoms of speech and press, guaranteed in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution; and
• Open government every day in the1000 or more public agencies in the 159 counties across the largest state in land mass east of the Misssissippi River.

How can we assist you? And what will you do to help us achieve our mission?