David Loukidelis, British Columbia’s Freedom of Information Commissioner has accepted the new role as the province’s deputy attorney general. Vaughn Palmer did a good column on the switch in jobs but I thought Loukidelis deserved more credit for his ten years on the job.
Personally, I think Loukidelis’s leadership was almost completely responsible for BC’s FOI legislation keeping [...]
Entries Tagged as 'FOI'
Loukidelis did good work for government accountability. Now it’s a legislative committee’s turn.
January 24th, 2010 · Keith Reynolds · No Comments · Law & legal issues, Transparency & accountability
Tags: accountability·FOI·Loukidelis
Report finds government stonewalling on FOI requests
May 8th, 2009 · Keith Reynolds · No Comments · BC Election 2009
BC’s Freedom of Information and Privacy Association (FIPA) released a report yesterday showing secrecy in government is even a bigger problem that we thought.
A February report from BC’s Information and Privacy Commissioner’s described what he called, “an unacceptable pattern of govern-wide failure to respond to access requests in as timely a fashion as it should.”
But [...]
