By Andrew MacLeod for The Tyee.
For two years leading up to the May election, the government of British Columbia regularly broke its own law for responding to freedom of information requests, a report from the province’s information and privacy commissioner found.
“Overall, I am frustrated to see that government routinely operates in contravention of B.C. law,” acting commissioner Drew McArthur wrote in Timing is Everything: Report Card on Government’s Access to Information Responses.
The report examined responses made during the two-year period that ended March 31. It found that in one out of five cases, the government failed (Read more…) meet the deadlines for responding that are legislated in the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.