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VIRGINIA
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
ADVISORY COUNCIL
COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA
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2019
Subcommittees
The
2019 Session of the General Assembly referred three bills
to the FOIA Council for study during the interim. At its meeting
on May 8, 2019, the FOIA Council established three subcommittees
to study these bills as described below.
1. HB 2201
- Forestry Records Subcommittee
The
Subcommittee consists of Council members Rives, King-Casey,
Treadway, and Vucci. The Subcommittee will study House
Bill 2201 (Tyler), summarized as follows:
State
Forester; confidentiality of certain records. Excludes
from the mandatory disclosure provisions of the Virginia
Freedom of Information Act certain records of the Department
of Forestry (the Department). The records include trade
secrets and financial information, reports of criminal violations
made to the Department by persons outside the Department,
and records of an active administrative investigation.
Meetings
Scheduled:
Monday, June 17, 2019, 1:00 p.m., Pocahontas Building,
House Committee Room, 900 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia
Agenda
Summary
Because one or more members of the FOIA Forestry Records
Subcommittee will be participating in this meeting remotely,
the public will be provided an equivalent electronic communication
means, as required by the Code of Virginia.
To
listen to this meeting, use the following information: [United
States (Toll Free): 1-646-749-3112 and
enter Access Code: 720-724-573. If, for
some reason, you experience any interruption in the telephonic
broadcast of the meeting, please call (804) 201-7382.
Monday,
July 15, 2019, 10:00 a.m., Pocahontas Building, Room 400A,
900 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia CANCELLED
2. HB 2386
- Donor Records Subcommittee
The
Subcommittee consists of Council members Coleburn, Hamlett,
Seltzer, Stern, and Vucci. The Subcommittee will study House
Bill 2386 (Bulova), summarized as follows:
Public
institutions of higher education; information relating to
pledges and donations. Requires public institutions
of higher education, when accepting a donation, gift, or
similar financial support that is conditioned upon the acceptance
of certain terms and conditions by the public institution
of higher education, to provide the donor with a written
document acknowledging the public institution of higher
education's acceptance of such terms and conditions. The
bill requires the public institution of higher education
to retain a copy of such document and provides that such
document shall be subject to the provisions of the Virginia
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The bill provides that
no discretionary exclusion in FOIA shall apply to protect
information relating to the amount, date, purpose, and terms
of a pledge or donation made to a public institution of
higher education. The bill provides that the identity of
the donor shall be protected only if (a) the donor has requested
anonymity in connection with or as a condition of making
a pledge or donation and (b) the pledge or donation does
not impose terms or conditions related to academic decision-making.
Meetings
Scheduled:
Tuesday, June 18, 2019, 10:00 a.m., Pocahontas Building, Room
400A, 900 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia
Agenda
Summary
GMU
Gift Acceptance Policy
Wednesday,
July 3, 2019, 10:00 a.m., Pocahontas Building, Room 400A,
900 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia CANCELLED
3. HJ 628
- Phishing Study Subcommittee
The
Subcommittee consists of Council members Bujakowski, Rives,
King-Casey, Treadway, and Vucci. The Subcommittee will study
the threat of phishing attacks using information obtained
through FOIA as proposed by House
Joint Resolution 628 (Heretick), summarized as follows:
Study;
Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council; threat
of phishing attacks; report. Directs the Virginia
Freedom of Information Advisory Council (FOIA Council) to
study the threat of phishing attacks on citizens and public
employees whose contact and private information is legally
obtained as a result of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
request. The study further directs the FOIA Council to examine
the current FOIA provisions and make recommendations on
ways to address the threat of phishing attacks on citizens
and public employees of the Commonwealth.
Letter
from Kirk Cox, Speaker of the House
Meetings
Scheduled:
Monday, July 15, 2019, 1:00 p.m., Pocahontas Building, Room
400A, 900 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia
Recommendations to Address Phishing of Public Employees PII
Current
FOIA Exemptions related to phishing
Summary
Wednesday,
August 21, 2019, 10:00 a.m., Pocahontas Building, Room 400A,
900 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia
Agenda
Summary
VCOG
position paper on phishing
VPA
memo to FOIA Council regarding phishing study
Draft (LD 0265) for a
potential new tolling provision under FOIA
Draft (LD 0269) for a
potential new tolling provision under FOIA
Tuesday,
October 8, 2019, 1:00 p.m., Pocahontas
Building, Room 400A, 900 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia
Agenda
Summary
Draft (LD 0544)
Draft (LD 0545)
Draft (LD 0558)
City of
Portsmouth comments
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