CAP Sunshine

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, University of Indiana
• 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

Robert J. Freeman

Robert J. Freeman, Esq. is the Executive Director of the Committee on Open Government. Before becoming executive director of the Committee in 1976, Mr. Freeman had been its counsel.

He received his law degree from New York University and a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Freeman has spoken before numerous government related organizations, bar associations, media groups and has lectured at various colleges and universities. He has also discussed open government laws and concepts in Canada, Japan and Hong Kong. In 1982, the New York State Society of Newspaper Editors presented Mr. Freeman with its Friend of the Free Press Award and in 1992 he was given the First Amendment Award by the New York Press Association. The New York City Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, the Deadline Club, presented him with its First Amendment Award in 1994. He was presented with the Governor Alfred E. Smith Award by the Empire State Capital Area Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration in 1996 for outstanding individual service and initiative exemplifying superior management and administration and was made a Fellow of the State Academy for Public Administration. In 1999, Freeman was cited in Empire State Report, New York's "Independent Magazine of Politics, Policy and the Business of Government", as one of "25 Empire State residents" during the past 25 years "whose public service, determination, idealism or gut instincts resulted in sweeping improvements in the lives of fellow New Yorkers". Most recently, he was given the Distinguished Public Service Award by the Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy at the State University of New York at Albany.

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