AUSTIN – Transparency issues surrounding the Uvalde mass shooting, First Amendment rights in school libraries and journalism classrooms and news leaders’ and legislators’ views on the current open government landscape are the focus of the upcoming FOI Foundation state conference, “New Takes on Texas Transparency.”
The event will be Thursday, Sept. 29, at the AT&T Hotel and Conference Center, 1900 University Ave., in Austin. Individual tickets and sponsorships are available for purchase online at www.foift.org. Discounted hotel rooms can be reserved for the night of Sept. 28. (Use this reservation link; the cutoff date for the conference hotel room rate is Monday, Aug. 29, after which pricing is based on availability.)
Speakers include state Rep. Todd Hunter of Corpus Christi; Sen. Nathan Johnson of Dallas; Tony Plohetski of the Austin American-Statesman and KVUE; Sewell Chan of the Texas Tribune, Katrice Hardy of The Dallas Morning News; Corrie MacLaggan of The Texas Newsroom public radio collaboration; Shirley Robinson of the Texas Library Association; David Doerr of New Voices Texas; Lauren McGaughy of The Dallas Morning News; and more.
Make plans to register and join us at the conference in September!