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Symposium on Executive Records in the 21st Century
The New York State Archives Partnership Trust and the Albany Law School’s Government Law Center have joined forces on a two-day event focused on the need for effective record keeping by elected government executives. Entitled “Documenting Leadership: A Symposium on Public Executive Records in the 21st Century,” the program is designed to explore the importance of the records generated by high ranking elected government officials including governors and other elected public executives, such as presidents, attorneys general, and mayors.
Panelists for the program are coming from throughout the nation and represent government, the media, historians and public policy researchers, and the legal community. Among the presenters will be former Governor of Pennsylvania and Attorney General of the United States, Dick Thornburgh, nationally renowned Presidential historian Richard Norton Smith, and former NYS Comptroller Ned Regan.
Sessions will include: keynote speeches by Dick Thornburgh and Richard Norton Smith and five panel discussions on the topics of: Public Policy and the Public Interest; Transparency, Executive Records, and the Media; Executive Records: Access and Disclosure; Access in the Digital Age; and Executive Records as Legacy.
Registration Deadline: by Monday, May 17, 2010
