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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.
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Mission
Statement
Connecticut's Freedom of Information Act!
Press
Release:
2010 CFOG Walter Cronkite Award Recipient Bob Woodward
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
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"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
2012 CFOG Essay Contest Winners
Click here learn more about CFOG's 2012 Essay Contest Winners
Thirty-fifth Anniversary
Celebration of the
Connecticut Freedom of Information Act
November 18, 2010
On November 18,
2010, CFOG held a reception and dinner at the
Omni New Haven
Hotel at Yale,
celebrating the thirty-fifth anniversary of the
Connecticut Freedom of Information Act.
Author and Journalist, Bob Woodward,
was honored as the 2010 CFOG
Walter Cronkite Freedom of Information Award recipient.
Click here
to view the video.
2009 Symposium on Media Coverage
and Democracy
On March 10, 2009,
CFOG held 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 was 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.
Click here to
view the video.
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