Ithaca College

December 10, 2019-- Ithaca, NY --  Twenty-eight Ithaca College students enrolled in a journalism law course will debrief their semester experience in making Freedom of Information (FOI) requests while analyzing a housing contamination case. The debrief will transpire on Thursday, December 19, 2019 in Williams Hall, Room 323 on the Ithaca College campus beginning at 8:15 a.m., concluding at 10:00 a.m. The event is free and open to the public. 

The legal analysis for the contamination case involved researching the law, performing investigative work and making public requests for information (FOI). The analysis was then framed as an ethical/legal segment for a podcast series. This is the second term that the Laurel Bay Military Housing Health Review has been assigned for analysis. 

The podcast segment teams will discuss the following areas in the debrief:

MILITARY SERVICE

• Chanel Courant
• Noa Covell
• Hannah Fitzpatrick
• Allura Leggard

MILITARY HOUSING

• Jake Bella
• Alexis Davis
• Jack Murray
• Emily Snyder

 MILITARY HEALTH & WELLNESS

• Madison Fernandez
• Zoe Freer-Hessler
• Madison Moore
• Krissy Waite

 ETHICS OF THE CASE 

• Dan Capodilupo
• Antonio Ferme
• Ishie George
• Phoebe Harms
• Ashley Stalnecker

THE ENVIRONMENT AND CANCER

• Bronte Cook
• Jen Houbre
• Skylar Eagle

 ACCOUNTABILITY AND OUTCOMES

• Madolyn Laurine
• Emily Lussier
• Cam Sessinger

 EVIDENCE IN LAW

• Liz Bierly
• Tessie Devlin
• Jacey Hammond
• Acacia Krenitsky
• Carly Swanson

The research component of this endeavor involved a partnership with Assistant Professor Allison Frisch's Mass Media Research class and the student audio engineer for the podcast series was Austin "AJ" Guerrero from the Roy H. Park School of Communications. The Fall 2019 Mass Media Research (MMR) Team included: Sophia Adamucci, Noah Barnes, Diana Castillo, Adriana Darcy, Olivia Forker, Aiden Lentz, Giulia Villanveva Lopez. Kristine Mirand, Nicole Pimental, Sobeida Rosa, Falyn Stempler, and John Wikiera.

For more information on this activity contact the instructor, Ann-Marie Adams, aadams4@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-1423.

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