LEGISLATIVE WATCH 2008-09:  CLICK HERE FOR NEWS FROM THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, BILLS INTRODUCED AFFECTING GEORGIA CITIZENS' ACCESS TO OPEN RECORDS AND OPEN MEETINGS.

The 2009 Weltner Freedom of Information Banquet honoring Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears took place on February 28, 2009 following the 2009 Georgia Bar Media & Judiciary Conference.  Click here to view a photo gallery from the 2009 banquet. 


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?