2007 Meeting Announcement

Date: 09/11/2007

Time: Meeting: 12-2pm, Lunch: 12pm, and Presentation Starts @ 12:45pm

Cost:

Member Cost $20.00
Non-member Cost $25.00

Topic: Public Records Request - Oregon Senate Bill 554

Location:

Therese Bottomly, Managing Editor of the Oregonian, will be speaking 
about Oregon Senate Bill 554 -- 
http://www.leg.state.or.us/07reg/measpdf/sb0500.dir/sb0554.en.pdf the 
recently passed Oregon legislation that provides new requirements for 
public agencies in responding to public records requests from both 
the media and members of the public.  The bill was introduced at the 
request of the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association.  Ms. Bottomly 
will discuss the bill's intent from the media standpoint.  Perhaps 
just as important, she will provide insight on what a member of the 
news media expects when they approach an agency with a request for 
information.  

She will also be able to act as a sounding board for concerns that 
we, as records custodians, have when we are on the receiving end of a 
public records request.  The presentation should give us a view into 
the "mind of the media" -- insight that should help us build a two-
way relationship of respect and cooperation that can make all our 
jobs easier. 

To make your reservations, please sign up online and make sure to 
choose your food choices:

The choices for lunch are:  

Chicken Picata 
Fettuccini Primavera 
Lasagna 
Chicken Parmigiana 

Therese Bottomly is a managing editor at The Oregonian, the Pacific 
Northwest's largest daily newspaper, where she also has worked as a 
copy editor, reporter, Sunday editor and senior editor for news and 
planning.  As managing editor, she is responsible for readership and 
standards, training, the copy desk, corrections and several local 
columnists.  In addition to her current responsibilities, she is the 
public records and legal affairs liaison for the paper, handling 
retraction demands, subpoenas and prepublication review.  For the 
past several years, she has worked with reporters and editors to open 
government records to the public.  She is a board member of Open 
Oregon, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting public access 
to government meetings and records.  As part of that work, she is 
developing a website that is a resource for smaller newspapers and 
working journalists across the state.  She is also a member of the 
Oregon Bar-Press-Broadcasters Council, which works to resolve 
conflicts between the media and the bar.  With the Oregon Newspaper 
Publishers Association, she persuaded Oregon's Legislature to make 
open for public scrutiny records related to any death or serious 
injury of a child in state custody.  She was a Pulitzer juror in 2006 
and 2007.

She holds a journalism degree from the University of Oregon.  Her 
husband, Mike Francis, is an associate editor on The Oregonian's 
Editorial Board.  They live in Portland with their daughter, Elise.