The PaFOIC
MISSION STATEMENT
The Pennsylvania FOI
Coalition is a nonprofit alliance formed to ensure
that all Pennsylvanians have full and open access
to their federal, state and local governments,
their records and their proceedings.
The coalition stresses that such access results in
the most responsive and effective government, and,
in turn, stimulates civic involvement and trust in
government.
The organization aims to preserve and improve
access to all aspects of government, to achieve a
presumption of access, to fund and implement
grassroots and educational access efforts, to
educate legislators in the need for access, and to
participate fully in efforts to improve legislation
to ensure the fullest possible access to
government.
It
will assist all Pennsylvanians — including
individual citizens, students, educators, the
media, professionals, and others in business in the
private and public sectors — in fully realizing
their rights and carrying out their
responsibilities as citizens in our democracy.
The official registration and financial information of the Pennsylvania Freedom of Information Coalition may be obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of State by calling toll free, within Pennsylvania, 1-800-732-0999. Registration does not imply endorsement.
Tax ID # 20-3771204
Defending access to government.
The Pennsylvania Freedom of Information Coalition was founded in 2005 by journalists, librarians, attorneys, educators and community group leaders. The organization is dedicated to protecting the right of all citizens to obtain public information from local and state government officials.Fifty individuals, representing every geographic area of the state, took part in our founding conference at the Hotel Yorktowne in York in November 2005.
The Pennsylvania Freedom of Information Coalition was incorporated and granted tax-exempt status effective Dec. 22, 2005.
In January 2007, the Pennsylvania coalition became a member of the National Freedom of Information Coalition, an alliance of nonprofit, state FOI and First Amendment organizations and academic centers concentrating on First Amendment-related issues. The Pennsylvania coalition was awarded a $10,000 start-up grant from the national organization.
PENNSYLVANIA FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COALITION
2009 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Gayle C. Sproul
|
President
Partner,
Levine Sullivan Koch &
Schulz, LLP • Philadelphia
Robert Richards
| Vice
President
Founding
Co-Director, Pennsylvania Center for the
First Amendment • State College
Donald Gilliland
| Secretary
Managing Editor,
Potter
Leader-Enterprise • Coudersport
Brian Lockman
|
Treasurer
President and
CEO, Pennsylvania Cable
Network • Camp Hill
Cate Barron | Director
Managing Editor, The
Patriot-News • Harrisburg
Douglas S. Campbell
|
Director
Professor of
Communication Media
Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania • Lock Haven
Robert C. Clothier
|
Director / Chair: Legal Committee
Partner,
Fox Rothschild,
LLP • Philadelphia
Jim DePury | Director
Television journalist •
York
Russell Eshleman
|
Director
Senior lecturer,
associate head Department of Journalism
The Pennsylvania State University • State College
Sally Carpenter Hale
|
Director
Chief of Bureau,
Associated Press
•
Philadelphia
Richard K. Honaman Jr.
|
Director
Director of
Pennsylvania Division
Signature Information Solutions, LLC
Jim Parsons | Director / Chair:
Legislative Initiatives Committee
Reporter,
WTAE Channel 4 Action
News • Pittsburgh
Audrey W. Romasco
| Director
Citizen • Bryn Mawr
Ernest J. Schreiber
|
Director / Chair: Membership Committee
Editor,
Lancaster New Era
•
Lancaster
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Kim McNally de
Bourbon
Pennsylvania
Freedom of Information Coalition
4075 Linglestown Rd. #312
Harrisburg, PA 17112
GENERAL COUNSEL
Craig J.
Staudenmaier
Nauman, Smith, Shissler &
Hall, LLP
200 North 3rd St. • 18th Floor
Harrisburg, PA 17101 • 717.236.3010