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

Suzanne J. Piotrowski

Suzanne J. Piotrowski is an Assistant Professor of Public Administration at Rutgers University-Newark. She earned a Ph.D. in political science from School of Public Affairs at American University, Washington, D.C. She holds a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Delaware. She is a Member of the Board of the Directors of the New Jersey Foundation for Open Government.

Dr. Piotrowski's research focuses on nonmission-based values in public administration, including administrative transparency and ethics. Piotrowski's work on governmental transparency includes access to documents, through mechanisms such as the Freedom of Information Act and open meetings laws. She authored the book, Governmental Transparency in the Path of Administrative Reform forthcoming from the Sate of University of New York Press (Fall 2006).

Piotrowski has also written widely on freedom of information issues including book chapters, journal articles, case studies and encyclopedia articles. Dr. Piotrowski's work is published in Public Administration Review, the American Review of Public Administration , the Chinese Public Administration Review, the Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce, the Journal of Cooperative Education, and the Journal of Public Works Management and Policy.

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