AGENDA & MATERIALS

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CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS

CLE Credits: 

Approved for 4.75 credits, including up to 4.75 credits of Law and Legal Procedure, and 1 credit of Other (Office Management) education.  “Staffing Your Public Records Unit” is approved for Other credit.  All remaining sessions are approved for Law and Legal Procedure credit. 

At the conference, you will need to sign in for CLE credits prior to the opening session, and then at the end of Breakout Session 1 and Breakout Session 2.

CMC Credits:

Public Records 3000 – 1hr.

Case Law/Legal Update – 1.75hrs. CMC ONLY

CONCURRENT#1 – 1 hr.

A.I. – CMC ONLY

First Amendment Audits

Staffing Your Public Records Unit

CONCURRENT#2 – 1hr.

Uncovering Hidden Records

Requests From Employees CMC ONLY

CORE / State General Scheduled Updates CMC ONLY

Total hours = 4.75 CMC/3 MMC

Total points = 1.2 CMC education or 0.75 MMC advanced education points with a completed learning assessment. 

In order to receive a certificate of attendance, you must complete this survey after attending the conference. Deadline for submitting the survey is November 15. Your certificate of attendance will be emailed to you after this date.

SPEAKERS

Ginger Armbruster

As the City of Seattle’s Chief Privacy Officer, Ginger is Seattle Information Technology’s Director of the Data Privacy, Accountability, and Compliance division, with responsibility for five citywide programs including the Privacy & Surveillance Compliance Program, the Citywide Public Records Act Program, the Open Data Program, the Compliance & Policy Program, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence Program. Prior to this role, she worked for Microsoft on an international team of privacy specialists to resolve issues associated with multi-million-dollar marketing initiatives. She spent the first 20 years of her career working in sales and marketing for Fortune 500 companies such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Johnson & Johnson, and several medical technology startup companies.

Ginger completed her undergraduate degree in Political Science from Barnard College, Columbia University. As a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Scholarship for Service Program (CyberCorps), she earned her master’s degree in Infrastructure Planning and Management from the University of Washington, focusing on critical infrastructure cyber resiliency.

Katie Blinn

Katie Blinn is a Pierce County DPA who advises on public records, labor and employment, and elections issues, and is the primary advisor for the County Council. She has previously worked at the Attorney General’s Office, Secretary of State’s Office, House of Representatives, and Court of Appeals, Division II.

Harry Boesche

Harry Boesche joined MRSC as a legal consultant in April 2024. A municipal attorney with over 20 years of experience, he has served as a prosecutor and legal advisor to various Puget Sound local governments including Auburn, Tumwater, Roy, and Ruston. In addition to his legal practice, he has been a paralegal instructor at Tacoma Community College for over 20 years, teaching courses in labor and employment law, legal writing and civil procedure. Harry has a 1999 J.D. from Seattle University School of Law, and a 2003 taxation LL.M. from the University of Washington School of Law.

Shawn Campbell

Shawn Campbell started working for municipal government in 2006 and has worked for two communities – City of Bonney Lake, and the City of Auburn.

She is an active WAPRO, WMCA and ARMA. She earned her CMC in 2010 and her MMC in 2017. Shawn has served as a WMCA Board Member, Vice President, President Elect, President and Immediate Past President on the WMCA Executive Committee. Shawn’s is currently the City Clerk for the City of Auburn. The Clerk’s Office processes all public records requests for the City of Auburn, which is currently on track for approximately 6,000 requests in 2024.

Sarah Carrier

Sarah has spent the last six years with the City of Seattle growing and maturing the City’s Data Privacy & Surveillance Ordinance Compliance Programs. Now, as the City’s Data Privacy & Responsible AI Program Manager, she helps ensure City departments incorporate best practices into daily operations and public service offerings, in alignment with regulatory and policy frameworks.

Sarah’s interest in the intersection of data privacy, ethics, policy & emerging technology has driven the development of the City of Seattle’s Responsible AI Program. The heart of the program focuses on transparent and responsible enablement of AI tools that will innovate and improve public services for Seattle residents.

Sarah earned her Master’s Degree from the University of Washington in Information Management, specializing in data science and privacy.

Tara Collings

Tara Collings began working for the Seattle Police Department Legal Unit in 2016, where she currently holds the position of Legal Section Manager.  Tara has been with the Department since the inception of the Body-Worn Video Program, and over the past six years, she has processed Body-Worn Videos for Criminal & Civil Discovery and Litigation, and Public Disclosure Requests.

Morgan Damerow

Morgan Damerow serves as a Consultant for the Office of the Attorney General’s (AGO) Local Government Consultation Program. The LGCP provides guidance to local governments on responding to public records requests, helping to develop resources, and identify technology options related to public records. Morgan frequently provides training to local governments and speaks to conference participants. In 2022 he was appointed to serve as the AGO’s Open Government Ombuds, expanding his work to include providing information and training on the Open Public Meetings Act, and the PRA to governing bodies and the general public. He joined the AGO in 2003 and is 1997 graduate from the University of Montana, School of Law.

Shawn Fettig

Shawn Fettig has been with the City of Seattle for six years, almost three of which has been with the Seattle Police Department working on issues related to transparency, accountability, and statistical analysis. Prior to his work with the City, he did related policy work with the Denver Police Department and taught in the Political Science Department at the University of Denver.

Ramsey Ramerman

Ramsey Ramerman is a deputy city attorney with the City of Everett, where he works on open government and First Amendment issues, advises the police department on records laws and works on general municipal law questions and disputes.  Ramsey also advises and defends other municipalities in PRA and First Amendment litigation through his firm Ramerman Law Office PLLC. 

He is one of the founders and the first President of the Washington Association of Public Records Officers and served eight years on the state Sunshine Committee.  In addition, he is the co-editor-in-chief of the Second Edition of the WSBA PRA Deskbook and co-authored two chapters in the deskbook. 

Prior to working for the City of Everett, Ramsey worked at Foster Pepper PLLC.  Ramsey graduated with high honors from the University of Washington School of Law in 2000. 

Judge Matthew Segal

Matt Segal is a Pacifica founding partner and former King County Superior Court judge. He has 25 years of experience in the courtroom.As a judge, Matt presided over jury and bench trials including criminal, civil, and family law. Trials encompassed topics such as commercial disputes, insurance, trusts and estates, real property, employment, personal injury and wrongful death, and professional malpractice. Matt was also responsible for an extensive ongoing civil docket, and assignments including criminal motions and post-conviction proceedings, ex parte, plea court, anti-harassment calendars, and appeals from administrative bodies or courts of limited jurisdiction.

As a lawyer, Matt has appeared in courts across the country, including the United States Courts of Appeals for the Fourth, Fifth, Ninth and D.C. Circuits, the Washington Supreme Court, all three divisions of the Washington Court of Appeals, and the United States District Courts for the Western District of Washington and Eastern District of Washington, District of D.C., Southern District of California, Southern District of Texas, and District of Maine. Matt has also represented parties in international disputes including in the UK, Canada and the South Pacific.

Prior to co-founding Pacifica Law Group, Matt was a partner at the law firm of K&L Gates, and an associate at its predecessor firm Preston Gates & Ellis. During his time at the Preston firm, Matt undertook a trial fellowship with the King County Prosecutor’s Office, where he tried felony criminal cases. Before entering private practice, Matt served as a judicial clerk for Justice Charles W. Johnson of the Washington State Supreme Court, and an extern for the Pierce County Department of Assigned Counsel. Matt began his legal career as a law clerk for Rush, Hannula, Harkins & Kyler in Tacoma, Wash.

Matt served on the Board of Directors of the ACLU of Washington and the Seattle Opera and is currently on the Opera’s Advisory Board. He has been repeatedly commended by the Washington State Bar Association for his pro bono legal work. Matt has also served as an adjunct professor at Seattle University School of Law.Before he became a lawyer, Matt worked as a print and broadcast journalist. He was news director of KALX 90.7FM Berkeley, and contributed to media organizations including the Associated Press, A.P. Network News, ABC News, the Alaska Public Radio Network and Pacific Islands Monthly in Fiji.

Jennifer Steele

Jennifer Steele is Public Records Counsel for the Attorney General’s Office. As Public Records Counsel, Jennifer provides expertise to AAGs regarding client advice and litigation strategy. She advises and serves as a resource to the AGO on public records issues, provides trainings, and represents the AGO in PRA litigation involving the AGO. Jennifer has served in the AGO for over 14 years, during which she has consistently worked in the public records arena. Jennifer previously worked in the Consumer Protection and Licensing and Administrative Law divisions. Prior to joining the AGO Jennifer was a clerk at the Washington State Supreme Court. Jennifer attended Syracuse University where she was on the Women’s Varsity Rowing Team. She received her J.D. from Seattle University where, upon learning there was no rowing team, she became an editor for the Seattle Journal for Social Justice.

Rachel Wilson

An Air Force brat raised in Italy and Oklahoma; Rachel went to Bryn Mawr College near Philadelphia to tackle a Film Studies degree before moving to Los Angeles to attend UCLA’s Moving Image Archive Studies program. Rachel previously spent time at MGM helping to coordinate its unwieldy film collection and supported content creators for PicMonkey in Seattle. As a Records Consultant at the Washington State Archives, Rachel is combining her passions for organization and service to help Washington’s state & local agencies manage their records.