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Former Premier Alex Scott is urging the public to give their views on a proposed freedom of information law — before it's too late. Government revealed on Tuesday that a November 30 deadline has now been set for citizens wanting to comment on the draft Public Access to Information (PATI) Act 2009. The Government backbencher, who promised such a transparency law in 2003 when Premier, said it was "most important" that people have their say before the "historic" legislation gets tabled in the House of As

It's not the sort of thing that folks get excited about but it is fundamental to good governance, so I hope that public will just take a moment out, read as much of the bill as they can and anything that concerns them, or even things that they find they welcome, let the Cabinet Office know   -Alex Scott

 

The aim, said Faulkner, was to introduce into the government and public service "a culture of openness where information ought to be made available unless it is against the public interest to do so". This is as alien to the present bureaucratic mindset as Paris Hilton is to Humphrey Appleby. It overturns decades of practice that embedded the notion that dealing with freedom of information requests means denying as much information as possible.

how we can increase the charges, extend the deadline   -Richard Denniss

 

An attorney for school neighbors filed a Freedom of Information request to find out. This is the third time the school district received such an information request regarding the lights, which were first proposed in 2007 and have come back before the school board and Planning & Zoning Commission in various forms. The FOI request came from Bridgeport attorney Austin Wolf, who represents an undetermined amount of Darien High School neighbors.

This is part of the rights the public has, and public agencies have that responsibility. It is what it is. We will meet our obligations   -Donald Fiftal

 

Anyway, these "actors" are reading, verbatim, unexpurgated, the entirety of HR-3962 and "The Senate Bill," which means the Chairman's Mark of the Finance Committee bill. You will be totally informed about all the death panels, once you have heard various calm-sounding people reading tables of contents and listing subsections and explaining what terms mean "for the purposes of this bill." Our favorite is Kristi Steele's sexy take on Title III Subtitle B Pt 1 of the Senate bill, "Extension of Long-Term Care  

The Senate passed the bill Tuesday evening, sending it to the House, but legislative sessions for the year were scheduled to end on Wednesday. Patrick highlighted his plea by visiting a charter school just yards from the Winthrop hometown of House Speaker Robert DeLeo. He told reporters he wanted to House to pass the bill Wednesday, and he said "it is a little frustrating" that final action butted up against the deadline.  

More details about the Digital Economy Bill, jointly sponsored by the Department of Culture Media and Sport and Lord Mandelson's Department for Business Innovation and Skills, will be published on Friday, when it is hoped the Government will put more flesh on the bone about how it intends to suspend unlawful P2P filesharers and any recourse to appeal filesharers might have. Parliament must quickly decide which order Bills will be debated and in which chamber: insiders are suggesting that the Digital Econ  

People who are arrested on Madeline Island will, if convicted, have to pay for the after-hours ferry rides required to bring them to jail, and golfers at an Iron River golf course will be able to order an after-round cocktail, thanks to legislation backed by area lawmakers and signed into law this week by Wisconsin Governor James Doyle.  

The viability of Balmossie Fire Station in Dundee will be put to public consultation for the second time this year.  

The Department of Personnel and Training (Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievance and Pensions) has admitted that the government is considering amendments to the Right to Information Act, 2005. The admission, which came at a meeting between RTI activists and DoPT Secretary Shantanu Consul on Saturday, ended the suspense over whether or not the government was contemplating amendments to the RTI. Speculation in this regard started following a meeting that the DoPT had with Information Officers on Octobe  

Thirteen Bills were passed into law yesterday as the parliamentary session came to a close.