Scotland's LibDems FOI Request Shows Massive Data Losses Across Government
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LibDems FOI Request Shows Massive Data Losses Across Government:
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LibDems FOI Request Shows Massive Data Losses Across Government:
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Kevin Dunion is busy trying to put himself out of a job. The Scottish Information Commissioner is persuading public bodies to sign up to "model publication schemes" like the one entered into by police forces.
He will then embark on a series of rolling audits of public bodies to encourage the spread of best practice, so that in theory Scotland will become such a haven of openness and accountability that one day all public information will be so freely available that no-one will have to appeal to the commissioner.
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"Without the FOI, the establishment would have been able to hide even more than it does now. Instead of making it harder for people to get information from public bodies on how they are run, it should be made easier."-- Norwich North UK MP Ian Gibson (Oct 2006) on raising FOI fees
If the public is "to participate more [in government] than just via the ballot box, then they need proper access to information"-- Joanne Caddy, (Nov 2001), "Why citizens are central to good governance", OECD Observer,