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Advisory Board

• Loren Cochran
• Freedom of Information Service Center Director
• Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
• Rebecca Daugherty
• Formerly of Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
• Sandra Davidson
• Associate Professor, University of Missouri
• Joe Davis
• Editor, Society of Environmental Journalists
• Kevin Goldberg
• Special Counsel, Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth, P.L.C.
• Harry Hammitt
• Editor and Publisher, Access Reports
• Frosty Landon
• Executive Director, Virginia Coalition for Open Government
• Linda Lightfoot
• Retired Executive Editor, The Baton Rouge Advocate
• Ian Marquand
• Special projects coordinator / Broadcast journalist, KPAX TV
• Former co-chair of the FOI Committee for SPJ
• Dr. Shannon Martin
• Professor and Dept. Chair
• Department of Communication and Journalism
• University of Maine at Orono
• Patrice McDermott
• Assistant Director of Government Relations
• American Library Association
• Suzanne J. Piotrowski, Ph.D.
• Assistant Professor
• Graduate Department of Public Administration
• Rutgers University-Newark
• Susan Dente Ross
• Assistant Dean, Washington State University
• Charles D. Tobin
• Partner, Holland and Knight, LLP
• Eric Turner
• Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission

Associate Members

• Sue Hale
• Executive Editor, The Daily Oklahoman

Former Members

• Anne Mullin O'Connor
• Former Indiana Public Access Counselor
• Bob Freeman
• New York State Committee on Open Government
• Tony Mauro
• Supreme Court Correspondent
• American Lawyer Media
• Rick Peltz
• Associate Professor
• William H. Bowen School of Law
• University of Arkansas at Little Rock
• John Watkins
• Professor
• University of Arkansas School of Law
• Suzy Woodford
• Executive Director, Common Cause of Texas
• Carole Wagner Vallianos
• Attorney
• Law Office of Carole Wagner Vallianos

Rebecca Daugherty

Rebecca Daugherty has been director of the FOI Service Center, a special project of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press since 1987. She is an attorney and an editor of Tapping Officials' Secrets, a 50-state and District of Columbia guide to open records and open meeting laws. She is also the editor of How to Use the Federal FOI Act, a guide to federal access laws.

The Reporters Committee regularly tracks changes and proposals for change in electronic records access and has published Access to Electronic Records in the States, now in its third edition.

She is a past president of the American Society of Access Professionals. She has been a reporter and a copy editor for various newspapers and has been an FOI specialist at the U.S. Department of the Interior.

Ms. Daugherty holds two journalism degrees from the University of Missouri and a law degree from the University of Missouri - Kansas City.

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