Name: Hartford Area FOI Panel
Start: 2025-10-28T18:00:00-04:00
Location: UConn Hartford

The panel, “Empowering the Public: How to Unlock Government Records,” will include practical tips on how residents can use the state’s Freedom of Information (FOI) Act. The act enables the public to access meetings of public agencies, including local town councils, boards of education and planning and zoning commissions, and many public records. These range from state records to town and school budgets to meeting minutes to police reports and police body-camera footage.
With moderator NBC CT's Mike Savino and panelists Russell Blair. of the CT FOI Commission; Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, of Hearst CT and Sam Smink, of WFSB