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 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

Forrest M. (Frosty) Landon

Forrest M. (Frosty) Landon is an executive director of the Virginia Coalition for Open Government. The coalition, set up in mid 1996, is a tax-exempt, educational foundation that opposes excessive secrecy in local and state government. It has more than 180 members.

He retired in the fall of 1995 as executive editor/vice president of The Roanoke Times, after working 30 years as a newspaper editor and 10 years prior to that as a radio-TV journalist - all in Roanoke.

He is president of the National Freedom of Information Coalition, whose members include various FOI groups in some 35 states. He is a former chairman of the FOI Committee of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and has been a member of the Virginia Press Association's FOI Committee for more than a decade. He was president of the press association in '93-'94.

In 1988, the Richmond chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists gave him the George Mason Award for outstanding contributions to Virginia journalism. A decade later, he was inducted in the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame and given SPJ's National Freedom of Information Award.

Landon attended Hartwick College and graduated in 1955 from the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri.

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