FOI Foundation of Texa<\/a>s, encourages journalists, attorneys and anyone interested in learning more about public record laws to attend.<\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s important, always, because the law is constantly being updated, and there are new court rulings and attorney general rulings, and also new parts of the law that go into effect,\u201d Shannon said. \u201cSo, it\u2019s good for everyone to stay updated even if you\u2019ve had this kind of training before, there are always new twists.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shannon hopes the seminar will inform citizens about government accountability and teach people how to file records requests.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just like to point out that open government laws are in place for everyone to use, and if you understand them and understand what your rights are, that’s how you’re able to ask questions of your government and keep a watch over it,\u201d Shannon said.<\/p>\n
The seminar will take place at the\u00a0Hyatt Regency DFW, Grapevine Room at 2334 N. International Pkwy.<\/p>\n
1\u00a0p.m. to 2 p.m.: Tom Williams, an FOI Foundation board member and a partner in the Fort Worth office of Haynes & Boone, LLP, presents training on the Texas Open Meetings Act.
2:10 p.m. to 3:10 p.m.: Tamara Smith, Open Records Division chief with the Texas Attorney General\u2019s Office, presents training on the Texas Public Information Act.
3:15 p.m. to 4 p.m.: Tamara Smith presents training on the cost rules associated with the Texas Public Information Act.<\/p>\n
Reservations are encouraged but not required. Attendees can RSVP to kelley.shannon@foift.org. For more information go to www.foift.org<\/a> or call 512-377-1575.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas invites North Texans to attend a free seminar on state government…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28,88032],"class_list":["post-333974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tp-dallas-fortworth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}