Below you can read a press release from the Scottish Information Commissioner regarding the publicity of Council pay data. Commissioner welcomes Supreme Court ruling on Council...
8 July 2013- Today, the Freedom of Information Advocates Network (FOIAnet) launched a major global analysis of the development of the right to information (RTI) movement, broken...
8th April 2013 First international survey of Information Commissioners shows concern over increased appeals and reduced resources. The first international...
The January public opinion poll “Politbarometer”, performed by the Slovenian Public Opinion and Mass Communication Research Centre, confirmed a traditionally high trust in the...
At the 10th World Conference of the International Ombudsman Institute several sessions on freedom of information were held. Below you can see a selection of sessions in which...
One could not argue that Freedom of information laws are only as good as the response mechanisms built into the laws themselves, and as good as the efficiency of the appeal procedures. If citizens cannot take an action to enforce their right of access being “shy” of filing a suit, or do not have enough financial resources to do that, FOI laws cannot serve as an active “pushing” system for more transparent government.
Therefore, in order to ensure a culture of openness and to give citizens a right to access to information, adequate and effective appeal mechanisms must be in place. However, common for all types of appeals is that no enforcement mechanism can make public administrations accountable for lack of openness if they are not willing to abide by the recommendations or decisions made to them.
There are five systems of second-instance (appeal) decision-making when dealing with access to public information:
Members of Information Commissioners' "community" are commissioners and ombudsmen.
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