Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Group calls on Montreal to join open-data movement

Group calls on Montreal to join open-data movement

Everything from crime stats to garbage-collection times should be available to public, Montréal ouverte says

By Jason Magder, The Gazette August 23, 2010 MONTREAL

- A group of citizens is pushing Montreal to join a worldwide movement to make its information accessible to all citizens.

The group, Montréal ouvert, was started by Michael Lenczner, co-founder of Île sans fil, a free wireless service, and three other Montreal entrepreneurs: Jean-Noé Landry, Sébastien Pierre and Jonathan Brun.

They hope to create a public campaign to mount what the founders call “gentle pressure” on the city to make more information public, and to make that information more accessible. The group says Montreal should join what’s called the open-data movement - a commitment by government bodies to allow free use of information collected using public funds, with the exception of any personal data.

Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/Group+calls+Montreal+join+open+data+movement/3433096/story.html#ixzz0yBUWXcns


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Jagdeo again promises broadcast, FOI laws

Bharrat Jagdeo, president of Guyana.Image via Wikipedia Jagdeo again promises broadcast, FOI laws: "By Stabroek staff | August 31, 2010


Broadcast and Freedom of Information (FOI) legislation will be passed in the next session of Parliament, President Bharrat Jagdeo said yesterday, in the latest of a series of promises.


Asked during an informal interview at the International Conference Centre, Jagdeo said the legislation would soon be tabled in the National Assembly. “As soon as Parliament comes out of recess…freedom of information… and the broadcast legislation will be passed,” he said.

In April last year, during the Summit of Americas in Trinidad, Jagdeo told reporters that the FOI legislation would be tabled in the National Assembly within two months. In October the same year, Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon pledged that the FOI Bill and the long-delayed broadcast legislation were among bills that would be tabled during the last parliamentary session.


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Monday, August 30, 2010

Scotland's LibDems FOI Request Shows Massive Data Losses Across Government

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"A Freedom of Information petition by the Liberal Democrats has revealed massive data losses in government organisations across the UK and Scotland. ...
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LibDems FOI Request Shows Massive Data Losses Across Government:

from Toby Mendel at The Centre for Law and Democracy: Pakistan - Note on the draft Right to Information Law

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Note on the draft Right to Information Law




Pakistan adopted a Freedom of Information Ordinance in 2002 which has remained in effect since then. In April 2010, the Constitution of Pakistan was amended to provide for a right to information. The Ordinance lacks legitimacy not only because of its pedigree (i.e. not having been adopted by a democratically elected legislature) but also because it falls well short of international and now constitutional guarantees of the right to information.

There have, as a result, been various attempts to introduce new legislation on the right to information in Pakistan. A Freedom of Information Bill was promulgated around June 2008. More recently, in July 2010, a draft Right to Information Law (draft Law) was moved in the National Assembly of Pakistan by Sherry Rehman.

Overall, the draft Law represents an important improvement over the existing Ordinance and, if passed, would go a long way to bring Pakistan into line with international and constitutional standards in this area. At the same time, there are still areas where the draft could still be improved. This Note provides a brief overview of these areas for improvement.

General
The draft Law contains a few areas of repetition and overlap, as well as a few where issues are dealt with throughout the law, rather than in one place, creating the potential for confusion. Some of this is due to including certain definitions in section 2 which really deal with substantive issues. Thus, section 2(b) describes the various grounds for making a complaint, but these are repeated in section 19, on complaints.

More importantly, the regime of exceptions is spread confusingly among the definitions (section 2(f)), section 8 and sections 15-18. There is a degree of repetition in these provisions. For example, national security is protected in section 2(f)(vi)(vi) and again in section 8(b), privacy is protected in section 8(c) and section 17, and law enforcement is protected in section 2(f)(vi)(ii) and section 16. These double definitions, which are phrased differently, clearly create potential for confusion.

Further potential for confusion is introduced regarding the application of exceptions. Section 2(b)(vi) refers to complaints based on a failure to provide information not falling within the ambit of sections 2(f) and 8 (but not sections 15-18), section 7 refers to all records being public except those covered by section 8 (but not sections 2(f) or 15-18), section 13 refers to the exceptions “elsewhere in this Act as Section 2(f) or Section 8”, and section 14 refers simply to the lack of an obligation to provide exempt information.

Scope
The draft Law includes a clear statement of the right of access, in section 3, along with strong rules on interpretation. Apart from rather general statements in the Preamble about good governance and accountability, however, it lacks any detailed references to the underlying goals the law seeks to achieve.

The scope of information covered by the law is defined in section 2(f). The definition starts out very broadly, as any record held by a public authority, regardless of form. It would be preferable for the definition to refer to ‘information’, as opposed to records, since this could be read as suggesting that the right of access only extends to specific documents, as opposed to the information contained in them.

Sub-sections 2(i)-(v) provide a list of types of documents that are covered (such as property transactions, the grant of licences and concessions, and appointments and promotions). Generally, such lists are not helpful as they tend to be used to narrow rather than broaden the scope of the definition (on the basis that items not listed are not intended to be covered).

Even more serious is sub-section 2(f)(vi), which starts by referring to information “in which members of the public may have a legitimate interest”. This is not appropriate. The right of access should apply to all information held by public bodies. Sub-section 2(f)(vi) goes on to list a number of exceptions to the right of access. This type of rule has no place as part of the definition of information. In any case, as noted above, the exceptions should all be brought together in one place for clarity and to avoid repetition. There are some serious problems with the specific nature of these exceptions, which are dealt with below, under Exceptions.

The definition of public authorities covered in section 2(g) is broad, covering the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government, as well as bodies owned, funded or controlled by government, or fulfilling a public function.

Pursuant to section 12, citizens or residents may make requests for information. Better practice laws apply to everyone.

Duty to Publish
The main provision on the duty to publish is section 5, which lists some seven categories of information subject to proactive publication. The list of categories is respectable, but more could be done to extend it, in particular in relation to financial and budget information, as well as information on the recipients of concessions and other public benefits (section 4(1)(b) of the Indian Right to Information Act 2005 provides a good example of a more extensive rule on proactive publication).

Section 5(1) includes an odd provision, which states that no information already published on a public authority’s official website shall be covered by the section 5 rules, which require information to be made available for inspection and copying, as well as on the website. This would appear to give public authorities the opportunity to avoid these wider obligations simply by getting information up quickly on their websites.

Another shortcoming with the regime for proactive publication is that it has proven impractical in other countries to expect public authorities to make all of this information available within a few months or even years. This leads to a situation where public authorities are, almost from the very outset, operating in breach of the law. A system for levering up the amount of information to be provided over time can help address this problem.

Procedures
Requests must be placed with the ‘designated official’ (i.e. dedicated information officer), and must be accompanied by the requisite fee and ‘necessary particulars’, in accordance with a form that may be prescribed by the government (see section 10 and 12). It would be preferable to set out in the main legislation the information that requesters must provide, which should be as limited as possible. The draft Law provides that neither any reasons provided by a citizen nor an official’s belief as to the reasons, may be taken into account. It would be preferable, however, to add that reasons may not be asked of a requester.

Where a request relates to information which is either held by another public authority or relates more closely to the work of another authority, the request shall be transferred to that authority, within fourteen days (section 12(4)). It would be preferable for transfers to be allowed only where the original authority does not hold the information (while leaving it free to consult with other authorities should it deem this necessary). Also, fourteen days is far too long to effect such a transfer (this normally has implications in terms of the overall timeline for responding). Fourteen days is also stipulated for responding to requests (section 13(1)), which is an appropriate time limit.

The part of Section 13 dealing with refusals of requests is confusing, prescribing various different scenarios in different places, namely under 13(2)(b), 13(2)(c), and 13(3). It is also not clear what a refusal notice must contain.

The draft Law does not provide for requesters to stipulate the form in which they would like to receive the information (such as inspection of the documents, an electronic copy, a photocopy). The draft Law simply provides that requesters may be required to pay a fee and that rules on fees may be set by regulation (sections 12(1) and 27(2)(a)), although section 3(ii)(ii) does provide very generally for access to be provided at the lowest reasonable cost. It would be preferable for the primary legislation to set out at least guiding rules on fees, such as that no fee may be levied simply for making a request, that the fee may not exceed the actual costs of duplicating and sending the information, if any, and that waivers will be put in place, for example for poorer requesters or public interest requests.

Exceptions
As noted above, the exceptions are spread out mainly in three parts of the draft Law, section 2(f)(vi), section 8 and sections 15-18. From a systemic perspective, many of the exceptions do not include a harm test, instead placing whole categories of information off-bounds. There are three public interest overrides. One, in section 2(f)(vi)(v), renders secret any information the disclosure of which would be “detrimental to public interest”, which section 2(f)(vi)(vii) defines as public safety and public security only. The second, in section 2(f)(vi)(viii) purports to relate to section 2(f)(vi)(vii), and provides that the exceptions therein do not apply if disclosure of the information is in the overall public interest (this does not actually make sense, since that section does not contain any exception). The third, in section 8(2), provides that the exceptions in section 8(1) do not apply where disclosure of the information is in the overall public interest. There does not appear to be any public interest override for sections 15-18.

The negative override in section 2(f)(vi)(v) is unfortunate and runs against international standards and better practice, even though it is relatively constrained. It may be noted that section 8(f)(vi) already provides protection for public safety, so this override is not necessary. Otherwise, it would be preferable for one public interest override to apply to all of the exceptions.

In terms of the specific exceptions, problematical provisions include the following:

  • Section 2(f)(vi)(i): protects “all internal working documents”. This does not provide for a harm test or even any identifiable interest to be protected (such as the free and frank provision of advice or the success of a policy). Furthermore, it is time limited until after a decision has been taken and implemented, but in other laws which include this sort of exception, the information becomes public as soon as the decision is taken.

  • Section 2(f)(vi)(ii): protects all investigative reports for the prevention and detection of crime, or the collection of taxes, as well as any information received during an investigation. This does not include a harm test.

  • Section 2(f)(vi)(iii): protects all scientific research which could expose a public authority to ‘disadvantage’. While this is a harm test, it is exceptionally broad.

  • Section 2(f)(vi)(vi): protects information relating to national security. This does not include a harm test.

  • Section 8(a): protects all banking accounts of customers. This is mostly legitimate, but could be abused and is already covered by the privacy exception(s), so is unnecessary.

  • Section 8(b): protects national security. This is subject to a harm test but the test is not clear. It applies if the threat to security can be demonstrated. A better approach would be to apply the exception only where an actual threat of harm to security is demonstrated.

  • Section 8(c): protects privacy. This exception lacks a harm test.  While harm is to some extent implicit in the idea of privacy, it would still be useful to add a qualifier such as “disclosure would represent an unwarranted invasion of privacy”.

  • Section 16(c): protects the identity of persons named in law enforcement records. This exception lacks a harm test and would cover a lot of people who may be named without creating harm (unlike the exception in section 2(f)(vi)(ii)(c), which only applies to confidential sources).

The draft Law also fails to protect certain interests that do need protection, including:

  • legally privileged information or solicitor-client privilege; and

  • sensitive commercial information of private third parties.

Oversight
The draft Law provides for an internal appeal to the head of a public authority and from there to the Mohtasib (ombudsman) or, in some cases, the Federal Tax Ombudsman (section 19). The grounds for an internal appeal listed in section 19 include a failure to provide the information in time or a refusal to disclose information. To these should be added a failure to provide proper notice upon refusing access, charging excessive fees and failing to provide information in the form requested.

A complaint to the Mohtasib is allowed when the head of the public authority fails to provide the requested information, within the “prescribed time”. This establishes an even narrower set of reasons for appeal. Furthermore, the law fails to specify any prescribed time limit for internal appeals. The power to issue rules for internal appeals is not stated explicitly in the section on regulations (section 27), although it would fall within the residual rule-making power. In any case, it is better to stipulate this in the primary legislation.

An appeal to an ombuds-type office, like the Mohtasib, is useful, but experience in other countries shows that an appeal to a body with binding decision-making power is far more effective. In this case, the law should specify exactly how decisions of the oversight body will be rendered legally binding.

Finally, the Mohtasib may impose a fine on those lodging malicious, frivolous or vexatious complaints. While it is not necessarily inappropriate to allow such complaints to be rejected on a summary basis, to avoid wasting resources, the power to fine may exert a chilling effect on those seeking to lodge legitimate complaints. This is not a power that has been found to be necessary in other countries.

Sanctions and Protections
The law makes it an offence to destroy a record which is the subject of a request or complaint with the intention of denying access, to obstruct access to a record, to interfere with the work of the monitoring body, to falsify information or, without reasonable excuse, to fail to provide access to a record (section 21). All but the last of these may attract a prison sentence of up to two years, although only the first one specifically includes a mala fides intention.

The draft Law includes strong positive protections, both for good faith disclosures under the law, and for whistleblowing.

Promotional Measures
The draft Law includes few promotional measures. Public authorities are required to appoint information officers (section 10). The draft Law also proposes a system for record management, in section 4, whereby the head of every public authority is required to maintain records properly and an “appropriate body” is tasked with setting guidelines in this area. It would be preferable if the “appropriate body” were identified in the law and if the standards it sets were to be formally binding, as opposed to just being guidelines.

The draft Law fails to identify a central body which is tasked with overall promotion of the right to information or with ensuring that efforts are undertaken to ensure that the public is aware of its rights under the law. There is also no requirement on public authorities to provide appropriate training for their staff. Finally, neither public authorities nor any central body is tasked with reporting on activities undertaken to implement the law, including in relation to the processing of requests.



Recommendations:


  • The draft Law should be reviewed to ensure that provisions dealing with similar topics are brought together and to remove any overlap and repetition, in particular regarding the exceptions.

  • The statement of purposes of the law, currently found in the Preamble, could be strengthened, for example by referring to the need to control corruption, to promote participation and to help individuals realise their own personal goals.

  • The definition of information should focus on all information held by public authorities, regardless of the form in which it is held, and avoid reference to ‘records’, specific types of information and limitations on the right of access.

  • Everyone, not just citizens and residents, should be able to make a request for information.

  • Consideration should be given to extending the list of categories of information subject to proactive publication, in particular to include more financial and beneficiary information.

  • Consideration should be given to putting in place a system for levering up the amount of information to be provided on a proactive basis over time.

  • The primary legislation should indicate what details requesters may be asked for when making a request, and make it quite clear that this may not include their reasons for making the request.

  • Transfers of requests should be permitted only when the original public authority does not hold the information, and in that case the timeline for transfers should be shortened, for example to three or five working days.

  • The rules on refusals of requests should be make much clearer (basically that a request may only be refused where the application is deficient, where the authority does not hold the information or where the information is covered by an exception) and the law should require the refusal notice to spell out clearly the reasons for the refusal, including the provision in the law relied upon, as well as the requesters right to appeal.

  • Requesters should have the right to indicate the form in which they would like to receive the information.

  • Basic guiding rules on fees should be added to the law.

  • All of the exceptions should be brought together in one part of the law and made subject to a harm test.

  • The various public interest overrides should also be brought together and should apply to all exceptions and operate only render information public (and not confidential).

  • The specific exceptions should be revised to take into account the problems noted above.

  • The grounds for both internal and external appeals should be broadened to cover all sorts of potential failures by public authorities under the law.

  • Clear timelines should be set out in the law for internal appeals (as they are for external appeals).

  • Appeals regarding a denial of information should go to an independent body with binding decision-making powers, and the law should state clearly how the decisions of this body will be made binding.

  • The oversight body should have the power to reject vexatious requests, but not to fine those who have lodged them.

  • Imprisonment should only be available as a sanction where the individual involved acted with the intention to deny access.

  • A body should be identified in the law to set standards regarding record management, and the standards it sets should be mandatory in nature.

  • Other promotional measures – including central monitoring and promotion of implementation, undertaking public educational efforts, providing training for officials and reporting on steps taken to implement the law – should be added to the law.

The Centre for Law and Democracy is a non-profit human rights organisation working internationally to provide legal expertise on foundational rights for democracy
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Offshore oil boards not in conflict of interest with industry

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Hill Times
Both Nova Scotia and Newfoundland governments are now planning to amend the ... in submitting five access to information requests to the Newfoundland board ...
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Opposition undeterred by Tory refusal to hand over emails

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Opposition undeterred by Tory refusal to hand over emails
Gloria Galloway
Ottawa
From Monday's Globe and Mail
The federal government's refusal to give a Commons committee the e-mail records of a Conservative staff member has not deterred opposition members who say they will fight to get the documents into their hands.
Conservative House Leader John Baird wrote last week to the clerk of the opposition-dominated Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics committee to say the government would "not be acceding" to the committee's demand for the electronic correspondence of a political aide who blocked the release of an Access to Information request.

Mr. Baird defended the decision, saying cabinet ministers, and not their staff, are responsible to Parliament. More than that, said Mr. Baird, parliamentary and constitution convention dictates that the political communications related to decisions and actions of cabinet ministers are never disclosed.

FULL ARTICLE: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/opposition-undeterred-by-governments-refusal-to-hand-over-emails/article1689506/
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Sunday, August 29, 2010

Wasylycia-Leis demands details on sewage contract - Winnipeg Free Press

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By: Bartley Kives
Posted: 29/08/2010 3:02 PM

Judy Wasylycia-Leis held a press conference this afternoon demanding Mayor Sam Katz release details about a consulting contract between the City of Winnipeg and Veolia Canada.

Mayoral candidate Judy Wasylycia-Leis is accusing incumbent Mayor Sam Katz of protecting the financial interests of a multinational consulting firm at the possible expense of the environmental health of the Lake Winnipeg watershed.

Wasylycia-Leis held a Sunday afternoon news conference to demand the mayor release details about a consulting contract between the City of Winnipeg and Veolia Canada, which the creators of Winnipeg's new water, sewer and garbage-collection utility chose to help the city make $615 million worth of improvements to two of its sewage-treatment plants.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/Wasylcia-Leis-demands-details-on-water-consulting-contract-101758618.html

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Secret services 'must be made more transparent' - Home News, UK - The Independent

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By Rachel Shields
Sunday, 29 August 2010

The secret services must become more transparent if they are to halt the spread of damaging conspiracy theories and increase trust in the Government, claims a leading think tank.

A Demos report published today, The Power of Unreason, argues that secrecy surrounding the investigation of events such as the 9/11 New York attacks and the 7/7 bombings in London merely adds weight to unsubstantiated claims that they were "inside jobs".

It warns of the dangers posed by conspiracy theories – from hindering counter-terrorism work by reducing public trust in the Government, to encouraging new alliances between extremists based on such theories – and recommends the Government fight back by infiltrating internet sites to dispute these theories.


FULL ARTICLE: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/secret-services-must-be-made-more-transparent-2064948.html

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Friday, August 27, 2010

Unlock sex offender data

Scottish housing providers were refused statistics on sex offenders but have won an appeal.

Emma Gilpin, senior solicitor in public law at Brodies, explains.


The Court of Session in Scotland has upheld an appeal by Craigdale Housing Association and a number of other housing associations against a decision of the Scottish Information Commissioner to refuse them access to information about numbers of sex offenders living within the housing association’s area.

The request

The housing associations made the request to Strathclyde Police under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 to help them work out whether there was a greater ‘burden’ placed on those areas served by the housing associations - in terms of the numbers of registered sex offenders living in those areas - than on areas deemed to be more ‘affluent’.

Strathclyde Police refused to provide the information and argued that it was ‘exempt’ from release. The Scottish Information Commissioner - who is responsible for checking that public authorities comply with their duties under FOI - upheld the police’s decision to withhold the information.


FULL ARTICLE: http://www.insidehousing.co.uk/ihstory.aspx?storycode=6511381
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Projet Montreal wants documents public

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Friday, August 27, 2010

The Gazette

MONTREAL- Genieau, the consortium that lost Montreal's $355.8-million water-management contract, says it hasn't decided whether it will fight the city to keep it from making parts of its $34-million claim for the cancellation of the controversial contract public.

Opposition party Projet Montreal filed an access to information request with the city to see the bills and other documents that Genieau submitted with its claim last month.

The city clerk's office, which handles access requests, wrote to the party yesterday saying that certain documents are confidential, including contracts Genieau had signed with subcontractors. The city clerk's office also said it thinks the company's summary invoices, covering assorted supplies of goods or services, should be public.

Genieau has 15 days to file an appeal with Quebec's access to information commission to try to keep the invoices secret.


FULL ARTICLE: http://www.montrealgazette.com/mobile/iphone/story.html?id=3448652

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UK MPs abuse watchdog staff over new expenses regime

Around London: Houses of ParliamentImage by Jessicamulley via Flickr MPs abuse watchdog staff over new expenses regime

The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) has revealed the way their staff were treated by MPs as a result of the new rules on expenses.


The scheme came into effect on 7 May 2010, and was devised by the independent watchdog to ensure that expenses are based on reimbursement as opposed to “paying allowances”.

As a result of a Freedom of Information (FOI) request, the IPSA has published a document which reveals the extent to which MPs and Houses of Commons employees treated watchdog staff when they were handling their expenses. It revealed that IPSA staff reported ten separate incidents of abuse, which included an MP repeatedly calling the new systems an “abortion”, another individual striking the laptop of his facilitator’s desk and one MP using expletives to one IPSA staff member and said they would “murder someone today”.

FULL ARTICLE: http://www.thegrapevinemagazine.com/?newsid=3170

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Thursday, August 26, 2010

Transparency Quote of the Day

“There is a general global trend toward more transparency. Austria lags behind in this regard because it has a weak and poorly implemented access to information.” (Aug 11 2010)


-- Helen Darbishire, Executive Director of Access Info, the Madrid-based organization that tracks European freedom of information laws.
 
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How MPs greeted the new expenses regime - UK Politics, UK - The Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/how-mps-greeted-the-new-expenses-regime-2062199.html

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

I should give credit where it's due on PATI - Bermuda Sun... Beyond the Headlines - Hamilton, Bermuda

8/20/2010 11:05:00 AM


I should give credit where it's due on PATI

Stuart Hayward

One of the most frequent criticisms in the world of politics is a focus on what someone failed to do. It’s also one of the worst. We hear it all the time: “So-and-so failed to mention this, or failed to do that, or failed to consider the other.” And then the critic counts that failure as condemnation, all the while ignoring all the things mentioned or done right.

FULL ARTICLE: http://bermudasun.bm/main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=135&ArticleID=47668

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Training course on using FoI Act announced

http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/foi/100824foicourse.shtml

David Higgerson : The council which wants to charge for all FOI requests.

http://davidhiggerson.wordpress.com/2010/08/24/the-council-which-wants-to-charge-for-all-foi-requests/

Government releases FOI access report - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/08/24/2991664.htm

Stabroek News - It is time for the public to demand transparency from the government

http://www.stabroeknews.com/2010/letters/08/24/it-is-time-for-the-public-to-demand-transparency-from-the-government/

#FOI4U thestar.com : Nearly 150 prisoners mistakenly released

http://www.thestar.com/iphone/news/canada/article/851438--nearly-150-prisoners-mistakenly-released?bn=1

Monday, August 23, 2010

#FOI4U: FOI Requests Reveals That Federal budget cuts compromise weather data

Federal budget cuts compromise weather data, report warns

Loss affects monitoring of global warming

By Mike De Souza,
Postmedia News
August 22, 2010



The NDP's promise to axe the carbon tax has not gone over well with environmentalists concerned about climate change.Photograph by: Paul J. Richards, Getty Images filesOTTAWA — Sustained cuts to Environment Canada weather-service programs have compromised the government’s ability to assess climate change and left it with a “profoundly disturbing” quality of information in its data network, says an internal government report.



The stinging assessment, obtained through a freedom-of-information request, suggests Canada’s climate network infrastructure is getting progressively worse and no longer meets international guidelines.

FULL ARTICLE: http://www.vancouversun.com/story_print.html?id=3430204&sponsor=



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