Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. And a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both.

— James Madison, 1822

The Iowa FOI Council, in conjunction with the Iowa Newspaper Foundation, is hosting a series of "webinars" on journalism and FOI issues. The program received funding from the National Freedom of Information Coalition through a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. As they are completed, the webinars — on media law, covering "courts and cops," and open meetings and records laws — are archived and available online at the Iowa Newspaper Association Web site.

If you would like to visit the home pages of any of our members, click on Council Members page and then on the member's link to the home page you would like to visit.

Please contact us with comments or questions at:
The Iowa Freedom of Information Council
c/o Kathleen Richardson
515-271-2295
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Drake University
Des Moines, Iowa 50311