Navigating Roadblocks to Police and Government Accountability

305 Wood Street,Pittsburgh PA 15222

15 March, 2022

Description

The discussion will provide a great forum for professional journalists and students to learn more about Right to Know Laws. To mark Sunshine Week, Point Park University’s Center of Media Innovation, the Pittsburgh Institute for Nonprofit Journalism (PINJ) and the Press Club of Western Pennsylvania will hold a discussion about the successes and roadblocks in obtaining public records that reveal the realities of correction facilities, police departments and other institutions on Tuesday, March 15 at noon at the CMI. The event will also be livestreamed. Brittany Hailer, director of PINJ, will explain the series of court actions her organization had to file to obtain autopsy reports to review deaths of incarcerated people of the Allegheny County Jail. Gunita Singh, staff attorney for the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, and Brett Sholtis, health reporter for WITF, will detail current and past court actions to access key legal documents for important investigations. The discussion will provide a great forum for professional journalists and students to learn more about Right to Know Laws and submitting Freedom of Information Act requests. Please RSVP by Friday, March 11th. No admission charge.