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The Sunshine Center at Elon University and the City of Greensboro are getting together to hold two workshops on open government next week at the Historical Museum.

So go down to the museum Thursday and learn about how you can learn more about what your government is doing. And how you can help in that effort.

From the release:

The workshops are free and open to the public, and they will feature multimedia presentations on best practices in making and responding to requests for public records.

The 2 p.m. session is geared toward city employees, and it will cover how to manage media requests. The 7 p.m. session has a more general appeal, and it will focus on public requests and will provide resources to create more efficient public records requests.

Participants in both workshops will gain information about open government resources, recent legislative activity, the Freedom of Information Act, Greensboro’s protocols for dealing with public records requests and more. Time for questions and answers will be provided. Representatives from the Sunshine Center, Elon University’s School of Communications, Elon University’s School of Law and officials from the city of Greensboro will all make presentations.