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Issue No: 113 |
E - Alert |
Issue Date: 16-12-2015 |
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USA Freedom
of Information Failures in Virginia WHSV Thirteen Virginia newspapers
tested Freedom of Information Act compliance to see if officials were
actually disclosing documents as mandated by law. Pakistan Citizens'
right: Information commission says govt support missing The Express Tribune The commission was established
in March 2014 – a year after the passage of the Punjab Transparency and Right
to Information Act in 2013. India CIC
turns down over 11000 appeals for insufficient documents Economic Times ... Central Information
Commission (CIC) so far this year as they were not accompanied by the
required documents under the Right to Information Act, ... USA FBI
now allows Freedom of Information Act requests to be made online Silicon Valley Business Journal The Federal Bureau of
Investigation recently began beta testing of eFOIA, a new online system that
allows the public to make FOIA requests for FBI ... Sri Lanka Right
to Acces to Information Bill to be gazetted shortly The Sunday Times Sri Lanka A Right to Acces to Information
Bill which was approved by Cabinet yesterday (December 2) is expected to be
gazetted shortly, said Jayampathy ... Pakistan Punjab
bureaucrats render RTI toothless The News International ISLAMABAD: The much touted Right
to Information (RTI) law in Punjab is becoming a toothless piece of
legislation as the top government officials are ... Switzerland Court
upholds researchers' right to privacy The public's right to
information does not supersede researchers' right to privacy, the Swiss
Federal Court has ruled. At issue was a dispute between ... India Haryana:
In 2 weeks, BJP govt spends Rs 17 cr on advertisements singing its praises The Indian Express As per information procured
under the Right to Information Act, the Haryana government spent the
money between October 21 and November 5, 2015. India RTI
query on PMO staff, expenditure on bungalow virtually stonewalled Times of India Mumbai: The Prime Minister's
Office (PMO) has virtually stonewalled a Right to Information
(RTI) query seeking details of staff and expenditure at the ... Sri Lanka Sri
Lanka Proposes Strong Right to Information Act Sri Lanka Guardian ( December 16, 2015, Colombo,
Sri Lanka Guardian) The Sri Lankan Cabinet has approved a draft Right to
Information (RTI) Act which, if passed into ... Pakistan In
KP: Who needs a Right to Information Act if it prevents access to
information? PakistanHerald In February 2015, Peshawar
journalist Aziz Buneri submitted a request to the KP's Right to Information
Commission (RTIC) to access information on ... India Law
to protect RTI activists in pipeline: CM Devendra Fadnavis Daily News & Analysis ... state government was in the
process of bringing in a legislation to provide protection and security to Right
to Information (RTI) activists in the state. USA Freedom
of Information Act requests in 2015 included parking ticket records,
contracts for Jack ... The Oklahoma Daily One of the most important tools
for The Daily and for journalists in Oklahoma is the Freedom of
Information Act. The law forces state institutions, ... USA State
Department sued over refugee plan The Hill A conservative legal watchdog
is suing the State Department to obtain documents about its work with aid
organizations to resettle refugees in the ... India Review
civil service prelims paper for a fee Times of India INDORE: Curious to see their
evaluated answer sheet, nearly 60,000 out of total 2.45 lakh aspirants have
paid a small fee for checking their optical ... UK Police
make one arrest over illegal hoverboards as British Airways bans them Daily Mail Just one other person has been
arrested for illegally using a hoverboard, according to Freedom of India India RTI
solves water woes, query withdrawn The Indian Express While the issue of
implementation of the Right to Information (RTI) Act remains a thorn
for authorities, the Act is apparently helping citizens in solving ... USA DC
woman seeking conviction-rate data isn't deterred by cost of request Washington Post ... for the information, which
she requested under the Freedom of Information Act. The law is
designed to help citizens get data and documents from the ... UK Whitehall
failing to disclose gifts and trips accepted by ministers, despite David
Cameron's pledge The Independent Failure to deliver transparency
will only heighten fears that senior cabinet ministers are seeking to weaken Freedom
of Information (FOI) laws to make ... India Smart
city list is biased, says Prithviraj Chavan The Indian Express “Information sought from state
and Centre under the Right to Information Act clearly exposes the
manipulations done to promote certain cities,” Chavan ... UK South
Somerset District Council rapped for Freedom of Information processing
failures Western Gazette John Snelling, a keen activist
for the Save East Coker campaign, submitted a series of Freedom of
Information requests regarding the council's Local ... USA Religious
Colleges Obtain Waivers to Law That Protects Transgender Students New York Times The Column said its list was
drawn from documents received through a Freedom of Information
Act request, which included exemption applications ... Pakistan Transparency
without accountability fails to improve attendance of MNAs The News International ISLAMABAD: Although a Right
to Information request forced the National Assembly Secretariat to open
the attendance record of MNAs, this ... |
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