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Grants

The National Freedom of Information Coalition has awarded CFOG a John S. and James L. Knight Foundation grant of $8,000 to fund development of a middle and high school curriculum on Freedom of Information in Connecticut. CFOG is working with the Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission on this project.

Connecticut's Freedom of Information Act!

NEW!!
Atlanta Declaration

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

- First Amendment
U.S. Constitution

"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society, but the people themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise that control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion."

- Thomas Jefferson

2009 Symposium on Media Coverage and Democracy

CFOG is holding a symposium entitled '"Death or Metamorphosis of the Fourth Estate?" The Impact of Declining Media Coverage on Democracy and Government.' The moderator of the panel will be Pat Sheehan, Chairman of the Connecticut Network (CT-N). Panelists include: The Hon. Kevin Sullivan, C. Edwin Baker, Jon Lender, Dean Pagani, and Christine Stuart.

Date, Place, Time: March 10, 2009, from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in the Courtroom at Connecticut's Old State House.

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2009 CFOG Essay Contest

Click here for 2009 CFOG Essay Contest &
Press Release!

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