Freedom of Information

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• MB uses his power to declassify documents

  
  Colour Blind — Authority: 134
  merdekareview 雪州政府解密官方文件揭前朝州政府土地弊案 作者／本刊翁慧琪  Nov 11, 2009   09:05:06 pm    【本刊翁慧琪撰述】 ...
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• Agenda: MRC CFS/ME Research Workshop 19-20 November 2009

  
  ME agenda — Authority: 132
  Agenda: MRC CFS/ME Research Workshop 19-20 November 2009 WordPress Shortlink: http://wp.me/p5foE-2mj I have received the following response, today, from Ms Rosa Parker, Corporate Governance and Policy, Medical Research Council under the FOI Act:  Open Workshop A GENDA in PDF format:   Agenda MRC ...
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• Royal Sands development Ramsgate and the freedom of information act.

  
  thanetonline — Authority: 429
  Due to my continued exasperation, mostly with getting the council and the developer to tell us in Ramsgate what exactly is going on, I put in some freedom of information requests and an official complaint a while ago. Now it may come as a bit of a surprise to some people but this is the first time I have made freedom ...
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• Ex-Director of Public Prosecutions brands UK libel law an international disgrace

  
  Don't Get Fooled Again — Authority: 125
  Cross-posted from Amnesty blogs I’m just back from the launch of a gobsmacking new report by Index and English PEN, highlighting the abuse of the UK libel system by rich individuals and corporations around the world bent on suppressing criticism of their activities. UK libel law denies most defendants a fair ...
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• Publicly avaiailable information isnt always old hat

  
  Open and Shut — Authority: 425
  A fuss in the UK about fast tracking immigration processing, apparently based on documents released after a Freedom of Information battle and posted in the disclosure log on an agency website seven months ago, but just discovered by the mainstream media and politicians, has given rise, somewhat unfairly to ...
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• Ofsted apologizes ‘unreservedly’ for error in Baby P case

  
  Baby Chums — Authority: 591
  Ofsted has apologized to the court for its ‘deeply regrettable error’ of failing to disclose an inspection report and other documents related to the Baby P case. Childcare regulator Ofsted’s failure to provide potentially key evidence to the High Court will likely delay judgment of the Sharon Shoesmith case ...
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• Lansing City Council member releases draft Freedom of Information Act ordinance in advance of meeting

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 669
  LANSING– Lansing City Council member Carol Wood Monday released a draft of a proposed ordinance which will serve as a guide to city employees in the release of public information under Michigan’s Freedom of Information Act. Under the proposed ordinance, city officials charged with responding to Freedom of ...
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• Texas autopsy center subject to open records laws?

  
  Texas Watchdog — Authority: 557
  An autopsy center with offices in Beaumont, Conroe and Tyler has asked the state attorney general to determine whether it is subject to the Texas Public Information Act.The Longview News-Journal has the story:The Southeast Texas Forensic Center … submitted the question to the state Oct. 6 after a Central Texas ...
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• Journalists Under Fire? A Day Later And The World Is The Same. Surprise!

  
  Living in Barbados — Authority: 469
  Perhaps people have unrealistic expectations when a topic dear to their hearts gets into the publics eye. They give the impression that all of the hard issues that have been there, whether discussed before in public or not, will be resolved and are terribly disappointed when preferred topics get less than their due ...
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• ABC lifts FOI game-50% refusal rate

  
  Open and Shut — Authority: 425
  Regular readers will know of our interest in the Freedom of Information doings of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The Annual Report 2008-2009 recently tabled in Parliament includes this in Appendix 18: "The Freedom of Information Act 1982 (“FOI Act”) gives the public the right to access ...
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• Business on both sides of FOI battle

  
  Open and Shut — Authority: 425
  Although decided under the now repealed Freedom of Information Act a recent decision by Assistant Queensland Information Commissioner Henry may highlight a situation that will arise more frequently under access laws that place greater weight on disclosure: one business exercising its right of access, a clash between ...
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• information & communication

  
  punkscience — Authority: 113
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Read this. Its a fascinating little polemic. Im downloading the torrent of the film as I type, which- also interestingly- was released under a Creative Commons licence.Its kind of related to this previous, information-related rant.
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• Nigeria: FOI Bill languishes in myopic ignorance

  
  Akin about things too concerning to ignore — Authority: 122
  Nigerian politicians have got it wrong about the Freedom of Information Bill, we want to know what they are doing in our democracy, their nefarious activities are hardly the main point of interest. Leave Comment Related Entries: Nigeria: A case of undignified self-importance Kwakoe - A multicultural festival ...
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• GEMS cover-up continues under DLP: Hundreds of millions of Barbados tax dollars vanish with zero public accountability

  
  Barbados Free Press — Authority: 501
  What are the functions and objectives of an independent Senator? During the time the late Sir John Stanley Goddard sat in the Senate he repeatedly called for up-to-date financial statements for Hotels and Resorts Limited to be made available. After all, it’s a majority Government owned company funded by the ...
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• Operation Brace: How the Government Ordered Officials to Ignore Suspect Immigrant Applications

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 650
  Operation Brace was the code name for a specific order to immigration officials to rush through 337,000 dodgy immigration applications without further checks, correspondence released by the Home Office has revealed. Copies of notes written in 2003 between Sir Bill Jeffrey, who was the director-general of the ...
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• Declassified Docs Reveal Pentagon Ignored FBI’s Warnings on Abusive Interrogations

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  The Justice Department released more documents — or, at least, less-redacted documents — late Friday to the American Civil Liberties Union as part of the government’s obligation in a pending Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. These latest documents provide a glimpse of the early struggles between the FBI and ...
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• Argentina’s Shaky Freedom of the Press

  
  CIPE Development Blog — Authority: 125
  Freedom of the press is an essential component of a genuine democracy. That is why Thomas Jefferson expressed that, “were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” Indeed, one of the most ...
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• Yes, we should rethink everything

  
  Open and Shut — Authority: 425
  Stephen Bartos of Allen Consulting , in The Canberra Times (Forget tinkering: we must rethink everything- no link available) on Tuesday writing about the advisory group on Reform of Australian Government Administration, and changes that should receive attention: "A worlds best public service would be highly ...
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• Lansing City Council committee demands FOIA policy from city attorney

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 669
  LANSING — The city council’s Public Safety Committee demanded that City Attorney Brigham Smith provide a draft policy to that body in a special 6 p.m. meeting Monday night, or it will introduce an ordinance to address problems with the city’s responses to Freedom of Information Act requests. First Ward Council ...
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• Freedom of Information Request #2009-2: To Barbados Department of Emergency Management

  
  Barbados Free Press — Authority: 501
  Barbados Queen Elizabeth Hospital Washroom in September 2007 - A new report details whether or not the hospital was built to plans and proper standards, but citizens arent allowed to know! Hiding information from citizens… Was Queen Elizabeth Hospital built to proper standards? When Government refused to ...
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