Less than a week after BC’s Freedom of Information and Privacy Association (FIPA) report raised serious questions about secrecy in government (see Keith’s comments here), The Tyee reporter Andrew MacLeod has uncovered another case of important statistics not being released on time. The culprit this time is the Housing and Social Development Ministry, which typically [...]
Entries Tagged as 'release of information'
Yet another case of our government delaying the release of important data
May 12th, 2009 · Iglika Ivanova · No Comments · BC Election 2009, Media, Poverty, inequality & welfare
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 government-wide failure to respond to access requests in as timely a fashion as it [...]
Government report on welfare leavers at odds with narrative
May 1st, 2009 · Seth Klein · No Comments · BC Election 2009, Poverty, inequality & welfare
Kudos to the Tyee’s Andrew MacLeod for extracting a long delayed report on welfare leavers from the provincial government. The report can be downloaded here. Andrew’s Tyee article about the report can be found here. The report uses tax data of BC welfare leavers between 2000 and 2005 to see how people have done. Comparing [...]
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Government compliance with legal obligations far from good
February 15th, 2009 · Keith Reynolds · No Comments · BC Election 2009, Transparency & accountability
BC’s Freedom of Information Commissioner released his annual report last Friday. These reports are a pretty good indication of how open and transparent our government is. The Commissioner is unhappy and he says so in tough language: The stark fact is that the government’s overall record of compliance with its legal obligations under FIPPA is [...]
