It is hard to say exactly what the perfect hospital would look like, but most people have an idea of what makes a decent one. Safe and clean would be...
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Will there be FOI prosecutions at CRU? :: Climate Today: "Let's discuss Will there be FOI prosecutions at CRU? by Bishop Hill. This certainly seems to be a possibility based on the story in the Telegraph. Tags: Climate. • Visit full article filed in Blog category. « Previous Post ...
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Open Your Eyes News » Privacy law helps the Canadian government hide: "Times Colonist – When reporters were briefed a couple of weeks ago on how the Olympic torch relay would go down, they were told no identities of the runners would be supplied, because of “privacy law.” Apparently the people who eagerly ..."
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The FOI Advocate: Celebrating Unsung Heroes in the Fight for Open ...: "The official blog of the National Freedom of Information Coalition and the FOI ADVOCATE, in which we bring news of freedom of information developments far and wide... NFOIC is a coalition of state groups dedicated to open government, ...
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White House Visitors Logs: Who Came To See President Obama?: "
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Secrecy scandal as Scottish Government Ministers fight disclosure ...: "Scottish Ministers will fight to prevent public knowing why lawyers are exempt from FOI legislation. While the legal advice apparently ordering Scottish Ministers to allow the Law Society of Scotland to keep its exemption from FOI ...
A Diary of Injustice in Scotland - http://petercherbi.wordpress.com/"
Muddying the waters over torture: "
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Extend FOI to financial bodies says Labour: "
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Records on kidnapping exempt from foi Act: "GOVERNMENT RECORDS relating to the kidnapping and release of Goal aid worker Sharon Commins in Darfur are to be exempt from the Freedom of Information Act ...
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Secret files to be opened earlier under new laws: "Unlike landmark FOI reforms in Queensland earlier this year, the commonwealth package will retrospectively amend the laws protecting official documents and ...
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FOI FYI » Blog Archive » Minnesota library pressured to ditch ...: "Government repository libraries have a different mission than newspapers, but it still makes you ponder this intersection of FOI and ethics. What do you think? This entry was posted by David Cuillier on Wednesday, November 25th, ...
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Health service tops FoI queries: "MORE than one third of Freedom of Information (FoI) requests submitted to the Government last year were queries relating to the health service, ...
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At lunch, I attended a round table organized by the National Capital Association of Law Libraries that took place at the University of Ottawa.
One of...
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Princess Politics: FOI: ""Attempts to give the royal household complete exemption from the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act are facing strong opposition, with MPs, campaigners and members of the public criticising the proposal," reports Ekklesia staff. ...
Princess Politics - http://princesswantsout.blogspot.com/"
Jersey FOI law to end secrecy culture: "
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Skakun pleads "not guilty" to FOI charge: "City councillor Brian Skakun pleaded not guilty in provincial court Tuesday to contravening privacy legislation by allegedly leaking city personnel ...
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UK Freedom of Information Blog: SIC survey finds public confused ...: "Research published today by the Scottish Information Commissioner has revealed that, while the Scottish public's general awareness of freedom of information (FOI) remains high, their understanding of what the FOI right means in practice ...
UK Freedom of Information Blog - http://foia.blogspot.com/"
Mint went into damage control over missing gold: "The mint doesn't just make coins for Canada, it has international clients, ... He questioned why so much of the access-to-information request would have to ...
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BBC Open Secrets Hacked climate emails and FOI: "A blog about freedom of information, written by the BBC's Martin Rosenbaum.
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CRU raw data loss not an accident: "
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Ministers thought hard about Tourism BC decision, produced no records - TheTyee.ca: "
Ministers thought hard about Tourism BC decision, produced no records TheTyee.ca ... revealed that his party's freedom of information request for all records related to the decision generated a response saying no such documents exist. ... |
Annual meeting could help parks commission win back public's trust, report ... Niagara Falls Review But Ontario's Ministry of Tourism released the reports last week in response to a Freedom of Information request. Williams said the reports give the ... |
People's understanding of their FOI rights has fallen: "
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FOI FYI » Blog Archive » Sunshine Week to feature local FOI heroes: "Sunshine Week to feature local FOI heroes. Do you have citizens in your community who fight for open records or meetings? If so, they have a shot to get some national recognition during Sunshine Week (March 14-20, 2010). ...
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Republic | Blog » Blog Archive » Stop the royal FOI ban – ask your ...: "As you may know, the government recently announced plans to remove the 'public interest test' on FOI requests relating to the monarchy. This will effectively mean a blanket ban on access to royal documents. For background information on ...
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Vancouver councillor seeking email retention policy - CTV British Columbia: "
Vancouver councillor seeking email retention policy CTV British Columbia Klassen, a former communications strategist for the NPA, told ctvbc.ca that he filed a Freedom of Information request last winter to get email ... |
Case Report – IPC blesses manual processing of FOI request despite ...: "The responding municipality's FOI officer directed officials to conduct searches for responsive records and to print and forward responsive records The ...
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Senate bill on right to information: "Should Congress fail to pass the Freedom of Information Act by then, years of effort that went into the crafting of a progressive and responsive FOI Act ...
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MP claims FOI requested documents 'lost': "He applied for details through a Freedom of Information (FOI) application. "They say they no longer exist. What happened to them?" he asked. ...
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NIPSS Participants Call for Passage of FoI Bill: "Citing the case of India where a similar bill as the FoI has been passed, the course participants noted that since “the level of accountability and ...
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State agency's decision a victory for openness in government: "“It's important to note that our state open-records laws are more robust than federal FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) law,” Welsh said. ...
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 Nanaimo Daily News | Transport Minister John Baird says he didn't pander to airlines with passenger ... Nanaimo Daily News The government intended to block the release of these passages in response to an Access to Information request, but the full, uncensored documents were sent ... |
The minister is protected, but from what?: "An FOI commissioner is to be appointed to become an independent champion of freedom of information and a separate Office of the Information Commissioner ...
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Bond kept on hot seat over pay at BC Ferries: ""It was this premier that gave BC Ferries a green light to excessively spend and to operate in secret by exempting them from FOI," NDP critic Gary Coons ...
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Your Right To Know » Blog Archive » Public locked out FOI wont ...: "Maybe we need to push some FOI requests to the prison service on the operation of private prisons if only to provide concrete examples of needless secrecy ...
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The FOI Advocate: South Carolina Local Governments Post Check ...: "The official blog of the National Freedom of Information Coalition and the FOI ADVOCATE, in which we bring news of freedom of information developments far and wide... NFOIC is a coalition of state groups dedicated to open government, ...
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Ghana: Rejoinder: Coalition on Right To Information Reacts To Public Agenda's ...: "... which appeared on the front cover page of the Public Agenda edition of Monday November 2, 2009 under the title, 'FOI BILL IN PARLIAMENT. ...
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BBC - Open Secrets: Immigration risks and FOI: "A blog about freedom of information, written by the BBC's Martin Rosenbaum.
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Tories accuse government of breaking FoI laws (Epolitix via Yahoo ...: "The Conservatives have accused the government of deliberately breaking its own Freedom of Information law over requests concerning immigration policy.
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No accountability behind board's booty haul: "It all goes back to 2003, when the Campbell government turned BC Ferries into a quasi-private company shielded from the FOI act. The government at that time ...
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Selangor to have Freedom of Information Enactment: "Apart from exposing the wrongdoings, he disclosed that the move is also to highlight the need for a Freedom of Information (FOI) Enactment, which will be ...
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Feds Charge $522,000 For One FOIA Request: "
The Treasury Department wants more than $500,000 to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request, a fee an attorney on the case suggested Tuesday might be one of the largest bills of its kind.
“I have not seen one that has been larger,” said Noah Wood, a Missouri attorney suing the government to comply with his nearly 4-year-old FOIA request.
The Treasury Department, Wood said, is “downright telling us where we can stick it.”
Wood wants the government to produce documents he hopes shows where are perhaps millions of dollars of once-frozen assets of a former Libyan-backed company in the United States, which Wood says owes his law firm legal fees. Toward that end, he is suing the government (.pdf) to comply with the FOIA request and to reduce the bill.
Still, the government wants Wood to pay “approximately $522,886″ for the records. The original tab was $26,000-plus, but after some revisions in what Wood was seeking, the government upped the ante – even though not all information being sought would be forthcoming, according to the bill. (.pdf)
The monstrous tab, according to a Treasury Department internal audit, (.pdf) is about as much as the $527,000 the agency charged last year to process thousands of FOIA requests – recouping what the audit said was about 4.5 percent of its actual costs.
What’s more, Wood said a former Treasury Department official working with him notified the agency to the “exact” whereabouts of the information.
“We basically told them the exact file cabinet it was in,” Wood said in a telephone interview.
The government said it was charging the “commercial” rate of 20 cents per page plus staff costs, and said the fees could go higher. Media and non-profits usually are not charged.
The FBI, which is also part of a similar Freedom of Information Act request from Wood to acquire the same information on the Libyan-backed company — People’s Committee for Students of Libyan Arab Jamahariya — said it would charge $242.20 for 2,523 pages of documents, according to Wood’s lawsuit. The documents, however, have not been forthcoming.
The assets of the company, which subsidized Libyans’ educations in the United States, were frozen in 1986. The freeze was lifted in 2004, leaving Wood to trace the money trail.
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Obama's Open Government Directive Nears Release: "By J. Nicholas Hoover President Obama's Open Government Directive will released by the ... and promising to accelerate Freedom of Information Act requests. ...
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UK Freedom of Information Blog: Extension of FOI Act to ACPO: "In a debate on the Policing and Crime Bill, Home Office minister Lord West of Spithead, confirmed that a Section 5 Order extending the FOI Act to the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) would be introduced early in the 2009-10 ...
UK Freedom of Information Blog - http://foia.blogspot.com/"
Artist, Open Government, and Civil Liberties Groups Join Calls for ...: "The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests file by PK, EFF, ... urging him to keep his promise of making government more open, transparent, ...
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FleetStreetBlues: FOI Friday: "This week's roundup of stories gleaned from FOI requests includes a 99-year-old burglary suspect (in the Bristol Evening Post), Calderdale Council caught out in a blatant lie over the cost of some publicity bookmarks (the Halifax ...
FleetStreetBlues - http://fleetstreetblues.blogspot.com/"
Raitt accused of expense abuse: "It has been accused of secrecy and a lack of both accountability and oversight. It has had to fend off allegations of an arrogant, insular culture, ...
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Privacy Act shields AECL salaries: "Canada's nuclear company is increasingly under the microscope as the federal government inches forward on a controversial restructuring plan, ...
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Open and Shut: "There should be a law against it": "This blog takes an interest in all issues associated with Freedom of Information (FOI) and privacy legislation in Australia. It also includes comment about open transparent and accountable government and privacy issues generally drawing ...
Open and Shut - http://foi-privacy.blogspot.com/"
B93 News: FOI Request for Hospitals: "FOI Request for Hospitals. The Ontario Hospital Association wants the province's 155 hospitals to be subject to freedom of information laws. It's asking the government to make the change. CEO Tom Closson says recent controversies ...
B93 News - http://b93news.blogspot.com/"
City auditor's independence questioned: "Earlier this month, a Free Press access-to-information request revealed the city spent ... and Auditor General of Canada reports to the House of Commons. ...
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Talk About Local » What should government do to help hyperlocal ...: "Make information free by default (rather than FOI by request) and then keep out of the way and let hyperlocal blogs and twitter deliver. Put out geocoded data easy to use. Free up data and FOI. Fund Geo-location tools / standards for ...
Talk About Local - http://talkaboutlocal.org/"
FOI Friday: Ten things we've learnt thanks to the Freedom of ...: "A brilliant story to kick-off this week's FOI round-up from the Newcastle Evening Chronicle. On one hand, the Government spends money trying to keep us off sunbeds. On the other hand, local councils still have sunbeds in leisure centres ...
David Higgerson - http://davidhiggerson.wordpress.com/"
Tories blasted for secrecy on stimulus cash: "... sent almost 33 per cent more money to colleges and universities in Conservative ridings across Canada and as much as 102 per cent more in Ontario.
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Montreal's Scandals in Mayoral Race Revive Sin City Moniker: "Harel's Vision Montreal party based its platform on ridding city hall of its “culture of secrecy and collusion” and restoring trust in the municipal ...
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Vancouver Coastal Health Authority (Re), 2009 CanLII 58551 (BC I.P.C.): "referees — information — third — unreasonable invasion — supplied in confidence"
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