Counselors Off the Cuff  | Sunshine Week Edition, Columbia, S.C.

The S.C. Press Association’s annual legal update which will focus on the importance of public records and open government as March 10-16 is Sunshine Week! Join our panel of media law experts who will offer a no-holds-barred discussion on the open government, open courts, First Amendment and legal issues you’re facing. Panelists include SCPA Attorneys Taylor Smith and Jay Bender, and Carl Muller.

At a ticketed awards banquet earlier in the day, SCPA will present the Montgomery-Shurr Freedom of Information Award. This award is named in memory of Reid Montgomery, the late secretary-manager of SCPA, and the late John Shurr, who spent more than two decades as FOI Chair of SCPA and as S.C. Bureau Chief for The Associated Press. Both led the fight for open government in South Carolina.