Are We Safer in the Dark?

In celebration of Sunshine Week, a panel of national experts will discuss open government and secrecy – the problems, the impact on communities, and what the public can do—in a program broadcast by satellite at 1 p.m. Monday, March 13 in Mudd Room 443.

Speakers for the satellite broadcast include moderator Geneva Overholser from the Missouri School of Journalism’s Washington bureau and panelists Thomas S. Blanton, National Security Archive, Georgetown University; Thomas M. Susman, Ropes & Gray; and Barbara Petersen, Florida First Amendment Foundation. More information is available on the Open the Government web site.

Audience members will be able to submit questions and comments by phone and e-mail. The 90-minute national conversation will be followed by a local discussion facilitated by Reid Wood of local chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

The satellite broadcast, co-sponsored by the Oberlin College Library, the local League of Women Voters, the Oberlin Public Library, and the local ACLU, is free and open to the public.