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We are a nonprofit alliance formed to promote expanded access to government records, meetings and other proceedings at the state and local level. Our efforts are focused solely on local/state information access. While we do some lobbying (within limits imposed by IRS rules), our primary work is educational. The Coalition was formed in 1996, after a year-long organizing effort. Our 23-member board of directors represents the state's access activists and friends of open government, including Virginia's librarians, genealogists, broadcasters, newspapers and the public at large. Start-up funding was provided by the Virginia Press Association, the Virginia Association of Broadcasters, Media General, the Landmark Communications Foundation, America Online, all of the major in-state newspapers, public radio and television stations, a number of commercial stations and other friends of open government. Supporters also include Dominion, Appalachian Power, SunTrust, LexisNexis, Christian & Barton, Conservation Voters League, Woods Rogers, Gentry Locke.
Click here for our bylaws. (Microsoft Word document)
Founding or current members include USA Today, Associated Press, the Freedom Forum, the Virginia Genealogical Society, Library of Virginia, Roanoke Office of City Attorney, journalism schools, student newspapers, First Amendment lawyers, the League of Women Voters (Loudoun County and Montgomery County), the Virginia Library Association, the Association of Law Librarians, Lexis/Nexis and some 75 interested individual citizens and public officials. Current and recent members also include the Virginia AFL-CIO, Virginia Education Asseociation, Virginia Chamber of Commerce, the League of Conservation Voters, Virginia Municipal League, Virginia Association of Counties, the Private Investigators Association of Virginia, the Student Press Law Center, the Virginia Organizing Project, the Virginia Association of Health Plans, the Virginia Travel Corp. and Woods Rogers law firm. Dues are $30 for individuals ($10 for students); $110 for nonprofit groups. (Please contact us for other categories.)
Minutes, 10/15/09, board of directors meeting, Staunton (also, minutes from the annual meeting, Oct. 16)
Minutes, 6/25/09 board of directors meeting, Virginia Beach
Minutes, 3/20/09 board of directors meeting, Norfolk
Minutes, 11/21/08 board of directors meeting, Glen Allen
Minutes, 5/22/08 board of directors meeting, Fredericksburg
Minutes, 3/14/08 board of directors meeting, Roanoke
Minutes, 11/29/07 board of directors meeting, Glen Allen
Minutes, 6/14/07 board of directors meeting, Virginia Beach
Minutes, 3/23/07 board of directors meeting, Norfolk
Minutes, 11/16/06 board of directors meeting, Richmond
Minutes, 6/8/06 board of directors meeting, The Homestead
Minutes, 3/24/06 board of directors meeting, Roanoke
Minutes, 11/17/05 board of directors meeting, Lexington
VCOG is registered under section 57-49 of the Virginia Sollicitation of Contributions Law. Our financial statement is available on written request from the Office of Consumer Affairs.
As a tax-exempt 501c3 organization, our IRS 990 form for the past 3 years is available for public inspection. Our reports are also posted at the Guidestar site.
Our board of directors:
BOARD OF DIRECTORS, VIRGINIA COALITION FOR OPEN GOVERNMENT
PRESIDENT: Lawrence McConnell, Charlottesville; publisher, Daily Progress
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PHONE 434- 978 7200
ADDRESS: Box 9030, Charlottesville, VA 22906
VICE PRESIDENT Dorothy Abernathy, chief of bureau, The Associated Press
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PHONE 800.552.9935
ADDRESS: 600 E. Main St., Suite 1250, Richmond, VA. 23219
SECRETARY: Craig T. Fifer, E-Government Manager, City of Alexandria
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PHONE 703.519.3468
ADDRESS 301 King Street, Box 3230, Alexandria VA 22314
TREASURER: Peter Maroney, vice president/general manager, WTVR
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PHONE 804.254.3617
ADDRESS Box 11064, Richmond 23230
IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT: Wat Hopkins, professor, communications studies, Va. Tech
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PHONE 540.231.9833; cell 540.230.7833
FAX 540.231.9817
ADDRESS Dept. Of Communication Studies, 101 Shanks Hall, Va. Tech, Blacksburg 24061
Lee Albright
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PHONE 540.377.5754
ADDRESS Box 118, Montebello VA 24464
Paul Casalaspi, Director, Information Technology, Library of Virginia
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PHONE 804.692.3756
ADDRESS 800 East Broad St, Richmond, VA 23219
Lucy Dalglish, Arlington; executive director, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
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PHONE 800.336.4243
FAX 703.807.2109
ADDRESS 1101 Wilson Blvd, Suite 1100, Arlington, VA 22209
John Edwards, Smithfield; editor and publisher, The Smithfield Times
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PHONE 757.357.3288 (cell: 757.651.9252)
FAX 757.357.0404
ADDRESS 228 Main Street, Box 366, Smithfield, VA 23431
Mark Grunewald, professor of law, Washington & Lee University
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PHONE 540.458.8526
FAX 540.463.8488
ADDRESS School of Law, Lexington, VA 24450
Dick Hammerstrom, local news editor, Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star
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FAX 540.373.8455
ADDRESS 616 Amelia St., Fredericksburg, VA 22401
Harry Hammitt, Lynchburg; editor/publisher, Access Reports
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PHONE 434.384.5334
FAX 434.384.8272
Waldo Jaquith, Founder, Richmond Sunlight
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ADDRESS P.O. Box 1142, Charlottesville, VA 22902
Pam Luecke, Reynolds Professor of Business Journalism, Washington & Lee
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PHONE: 540.458.8435
ADDRESS: Lexington, VA 24450-0303
Thomas Moncure, Associate Vice President for University Counsel, George Mason University (2010)
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PHONE 703.993.2619
FAX 703.993.2340
ADDRESS P.O. Box 569, Fairfax 22038
Patricia O'Bannon, Henrico County Board of Supervisors
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PHONE 804.501.4208
ADDRESS P.O. Box 27032, Richmond, VA 23273-7032
Robert M. O'Neil, Director, Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression
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PHONE 434.295.4784
FAX 434.296.3621
ADDRESS 400 Worrell Dr., Charlottesville VA 22911-8691
Matt Paxton IV, publisher, The News-Gazette, Lexington
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PHONE 540.463.3113
FAX 540.464.6397; cell 540.460.3113
ADDRESS Box 1153, Lexington, VA 24450
John Schick, President, Piedmont Communications Inc. :WJMA, WOJL,WCVA, WVCA
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PHONE 540.672.1000
ADDRESS P.O. Box 271 , Orange VA 22960
Nancy Kent Smith, VP/News WWBT-TV
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PHONE 804.230.1212
ADDRESS Box 12, Richmond, VA 23218
Rod Smolla, dean, Washington & Lee University School of Law
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ADDRESS School of Law, W&L, Lexington VA 24450
EX OFFICIO MEMBER
Ginger Stanley, executive director, Virginia Press Association
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PHONE 804.521.7575
FAX 804.521.7590
ADDRESS: 11529 Nuckols Road, Glen Allen, VA 23059
EX OFFICIO MEMBER
Doug Easter, director of government relations, Virginia Association of Broadcasters
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PHONE 434.977.3716
FAX 434.979.2439
ADDRESS: 600 Peter Jefferson Parkway, Charlottesville, VA 22911-8835
COUNSEL
Joe Smith
ADDRESS 1921 Gallows Road Suite 750, Vienna VA 22182
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PHONE 203.883.0878
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Megan H. Rhyne
PHONE: 540.353.8264
ADDRESS: Box 2576, Williamsburg VA 23187
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