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2021 Technology, Media, & Privacy Law Conference

2021 Technology, Media, & Privacy Law: Implications for Public Health and Safety

Friday, March 19, 2021 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET

About the Technology, Media, & Privacy Law Conference

The Technology, Media, & Privacy Law Conference addresses how technological advancements are reshaping privacy and free speech issues in the fields of law, journalism, and public policy. During 2020, the perils of COVID-19 and misuse of deadly force by police officers put a sharp point on concerns for transparency and informational privacy. In this virtual gathering, experts from law, media, and nonprofit advocacy will examine how government monopolization of data can exacerbate risk to vulnerable populations — and how invasive law enforcement technologies can amplify those risks.

The TMPL conference is hosted by the Center for Governmental Responsibility (CGR) at the University of Florida Levin College of Law and the Brechner Center for Freedom of Information at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications.

The 2021 Technology, Media & Privacy Conference will be held on Zoom and is free. Please register here to receive the link. Florida CLE credits: 8.5 general credits and 6.5 technology credits from The Florida Bar.

View the recording of the 2021 Conference morning session  here.

View the recording of the 2021 Conference afternoon session here.

View/download the speaker information here.

2021 Conference Schedule:

Friday March 19, 2021
  • 9:00 a.m. – 9:10 a.m. ET | Welcome Address
    • Jon Mills, Center for Governmental Responsibility, University of Florida Levin College of Law
    • Frank LoMonte, Brechner Center for Freedom of Information,  University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications
  • 9:10 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. ET | Session 1: Global Privacy Issues in the Pandemic Era
  • 10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. ET | Session 2: Transparency of Policing Technology
  • 12:30 p.m.– 1:30 p.m. ET | Lunch/Breakout Rooms
    • Digitizing of Court Records
    • News Gathering and Border Security
      • Zita Arocha, University of Texas at El Paso Department of Communication
      • George Fishman, Former Department of Homeland Security Official
      • Victoria Baranetsky, General Counsel, The Center for Investigative Reporting
    • You are the Product: The Risks, Rewards, and Dangers of Surveillance Capitalism
  • 1:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. ET | Session 3: Access to Arrest Records: Accountability and Equity Issues
  • 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. ET | Session 4: Medical Data, Surveillance, and the Pandemic
    • Jon Mills, University of Florida Levin College of Law – Center for Governmental Responsibility
    • Pedro Allende, Former Department of Homeland Security Official
    • Amy K. Sanders, University of Texas at Austin School of Journalism and Media
    • Sara Sidner, CNN
    • Al-Amyn Sumar, New York Times
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Published: March 1st, 2021

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The Florida Constitutional Law Endowment in memory of Justice Ben F. Overton was created by Judge Karen Miller in 2013. This fund supports lectures and presentations by Justices of the Florida Supreme Court at the Fredric G. Levin College of Law.

HISTORY

Justice Overton, who earned his B.S. in 1951 and his Juris Doctor in 1952 from the University of Florida, was the first merit appointment to the Florida Supreme Court. Throughout his career he was active in legal education and served as an Adjunct Professor at the Levin College of Law through December 2012, the month of his death. Although he resided at Oak Hammock at the University of Florida, a continuing care retirement community developed in cooperation with UF, he also considered the Florida Supreme Court “home.” Among the high points of his later years was hosting Justices of the Florida Supreme Court in Gainesville and taking his class to Tallahassee to hear oral arguments at the Florida Supreme Court.
Judge Miller, who earned her B.S. cum laude from New York University in 1974 and her Juris Doctor from New York Law School in 1977, served as Chief Administrative Law Judge of the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs, New York City’s business regulatory agency, before she retired to Oak Hammock at the University of Florida. Having accompanied Justice Overton on his excursions to Tallahassee and joined him in welcoming guests to Oak Hammock at the University of Florida, she created the endowment in memory of Justice Overton to ensure that the Levin College of Law continues to have the funding necessary to continue and enhance the interaction between its students and the Florida Supreme Court.

 

Judge Miller remembered the event that motivated the endowment.

 

Prior to a dinner at the home of Dean Robert Jerry and Lisa Jerry shortly after Justice Overton’s death, Justice Barbara Pariente and I were discussing a suitable memorial. Justice Pariente, who had been Justice Overton’s colleague on the Florida Supreme Court and who understood the importance to him of the interaction between his students and the Court, suggested the outline of what has become the Overton lectures. Dean Jerry, who has since retired, as has Dean Emeritus Jon Mills, who assumed responsibility for implementing the Overton lectures, were very supportive from the beginning. Since Dean Mills’ retirement, Professor Timothy McClendon, who assisted both Justice Overton and Dean Mills teaching Florida Constitutional Law and who co-authored the recent Florida Constitutional Law casebook, has continued the Overton lectures with the support of Interim Dean Merritt McAlister and CGR director, Professor Danaya Wright.

Justice Overton was a devoted jurist, educator, and ethical leader of the Florida legal profession. The Overton Lecture Series brings Florida Supreme Court Justices to the University of Florida, Levin College of Law, and serves to introduce students to the inner workings of the Court. CGR and the students of the College of Law extend our deepest gratitude to Judge Karen Miller for making the Overton Lectures possible in perpetuity.

You can watch an interview for the Florida Historical Society by Mary Adkins, professor emeritus of the UF Levin College of Law, with Justice Overton here.

Justice Overton was also interviewed for the Samuel Proctor Oral History Project and a transcript of his interview is available at the Smathers Library, and here.
Justice Overton sat on the Constitution Revision Commission of 1977-78 that proposed a right to privacy in the Florida Constitution. Although it failed as part of the Constitution Revision Commission recommendations, it passed in 1980 when proposed by the legislature. The bill was co-sponsored by our very own Jon Mills. The privacy provision prevailed by greater than 60%. Justice Overton then wrote a concurrence in a critical reproductive rights case in 1989 affirming that the privacy provision of the Florida Constitution included the right to obtain an abortion. That decision was overruled in Planned Parenthood of SW and Central Florida v. Florida. You can read about the role of Justice Overton, Jon Mills – director emeritus of CGR, and the history of the 1989 case here.