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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

Shannon E. Martin

Shannon E. Martin is an associate professor at the University of Maine in Orono. She earned a Ph.D. in Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina and an M.A. in Journalism at Indiana University. She was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and received an American Society of Newspaper Editors' Journalism Education Excellence Summer Fellowship.

She is the author of several books and journal articles concerned with FOIA issues. These include: Bits, Bytes and Big Brother: Federal Information Control In The Technological Age. (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1995) and, Martin with Kathy Hansen, Newspapers of Record in a Digital Age: From Hot Type to Hot Link, (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1998).

Articles include: "State Laws Mandating Online Posting of Legal and Public Notices Traditionally Published in the Newspaper" Communications and the Law April 2003, Vol.25 No.1 pp.41-54; Martin, with Bill Chamberlin & Irena Dmitrieva, "State Laws Requiring World Wide Web Dissemination of Information: A Review of State Government Mandates for Documents Online," Information and Communication Technology Law, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2001, pp 169-180; "Parallel Issues and Comparative Solutions for the Depository Library Program and the Freedom of Information Act," Communications and the Law, Vol 15, No. 3, September 1993, pp. 21-36; "Analysis of the Computer Security Act of 1987 and Its Consequences for the Freedom of Information Act," Communications and the Law, Vol. 14, No. 3, Winter 1992, pp. 401 418.

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