A newsletter containing news, views, articles, investigative stories in
the field of
Right to Information
From
Around the World
Issue No: 67
E - Alert
Issue Date: 03-05-2013
'About 20-25% complaints are against missing land records'
Times of India
The Right to Information (RTI) Act has proved to be a boon for
information seekers across the country as also Jharkhand. Missing land records
in the state, however, remain one of the biggest problems, something which even
the information commission in ...
Associated Press wins Brechner FOI award from University of Florida
University of Florida
The Associated Press has won the 27th Annual Joseph L. Brechner Freedom
of Information Award for it groundbreaking investigative series which tested
the right-to-information laws in the more than 100 countries that have them.
“This series highlighted ...
Freedom of information act could damage Denmark's reputation
The Copenhagen Post
The government's plan to adopt a new freedom of information act
(offentlighedslov) that would reduce the public's right to access governmental
documents could compromise Denmark's reputation internationally. The
transparency watchdog Transparency ...
EPA release of farmers' personal information appalling
The Hill (blog)
Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced
that they mistakenly released personal information of thousands of farmers to
environmental groups in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
request. This breach of ...
Sexual and reproductive health: 'Denial of rights, lack of awareness
hurting ...
The Express Tribune
Of the six, the right to information and education scored a mean of 2.5,
significantly worse than the right to right to equality, right to privacy,
right to choose and the right to decide. The right to healthcare and protection
also achieved a ...
RTI Act in limbo: 12800 pleas pending with MP info panel
Times of India
BHOPAL: If you are denied information under Right to Information (RTI)
Act by government departments-you can appeal or complain with information
commission—but
Police officers report theft from own station after thief steals tin of
biscuits
Telegraph.co.uk
The crime at Devon and Cornwall Police's headquarters was logged on
February 28, 2012 – and remains officially unsolved. Officers have been forced
to reveal the biscuit tin crime following a Freedom of Information request. A
spokesman for the force ...
Police offer no information on 86-year-old rapist charge
Milton Keynes Citizen
Figures obtained via a Freedom of Information request by the Citizen
showed that between April 1, 2011 and March 31, 2012, an 86-year-old man was
charged with rape - officially the oldest man Milton Keynes to be charged with
a criminal offence during ...
Freedom of Information in India: Two Million Requests. Now What ...
What do you get when the world's largest democracy passes a right to
information law? We visited the New Delhi office of information commissioner
Shailesh ...
Approve Whistleblowers Protection Bill in the budget session: NCPRI
Livemint
New Delhi: The activist group National Campaign for People's Right to
Information (NCPRI) has demanded that the Whistleblowers Protection Bill, 2011,
be discussed and approved by Parliament in the budget session that resumes on
Monday. The NCPRI ...
NOA Unveils Information Act
Leadership Newspapers
The translated versions of the Freedom of Information Act in three
Nigerian languages of Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba, were unveiled on Friday in Abuja
by the National Orientation Agency (NOA). Unveiling the documents, Mr Mohammed
Adoke, the Minister of ...
Scottish authority legal bills top £400000
Scotsman
PUBLIC authorities in Scotland have spent more than £400,000 on private
legal advice to help them respond to freedom of information requests, an
investigation by Scotland on Sunday can reveal. More than 60 Scottish
authorities have paid legal firms ...
Public-pvt partnerships to fall under RTI ambit
Hindu Business Line
Public-private partnerships (PPPs) will soon come under the ambit of the
RTI (right to information) as per a fresh set of guidelines issued by the
Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) on April 15. According to the
guidelines on suo motu ...
On RTI terrain, police one up on revenue department
Indian Express
Police seem to be scoring over wings of the revenue department, as far as
implementation of the Right to Information (RTI) Act in Pune is concerned. This
was gauged from data given by officers of the state information commission
(SIC), Pune, which ...
Maharashtra pips Centre in RTI disposal
Times of India
MUMBAI: Maharashtra has overtaken the Centre when it comes to the
disposal rate of Right to Information applications. Between June 2012 and March
2013, the state's five information commissioners cleared 23,693 appeals,
clocking an approximate ...
Search on for RTI activist
Times of India
MUMBAI: Cops are leaving no stone unturned in their search for a Right to
Information activist, Mohammed Shaikh, who went missing on April 12. "The
cellphone service provider has refused to hand over call data records. If we
get the data we will be ...
RTI activists humiliated
E-Pao.net
Imphal, April 25 2013: Three Right to Information (RTI) activists have
allegedly been abused and assaulted by supporters of a former pradhan and nine
ward members for filing a petition regarding issuance of two job cards to an
individual. Speaking to ...
NYPD, NYCHA among worst for requests for information: report
New York Daily News
Nearly one third of Freedom of Information Requests to those two agencies
were completely ignored, the worst of all the city agencies monitored,
according to a new report from Public Advocate Bill de Blasio. The report found
that 33 percent of requests ...
Vendor thrashed after refusing to pay 'gratification fees'
Indian Express
He also revealed a piece of information which he had acquired from an RTI
(Right to Information) application. As per the RTI which Khan produced, as many
as 12 criminal cases ranging from assault, cheating and the Excise Act have
been registered ...
Access to budget documents: speakers call for enforcement of Right to ...
Business Recorder (blog)
Speakers at a seminar have identified the major bottlenecks in way of
access to budget documents and disclosing financial information, called for
enactment of Right of Information (RTI) Act in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. They said
that the implementation of ...
Defying HC order, PMC continues to axe trees: Activist
Daily News & Analysis
City-based Right to Information (RTI) worker and green activist Vinod
Jain has alleged that the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has allowed hacking
of thousands of trees since 2005. He also alleged that axing of trees continues
in the city ...
Court rules Va. can deny out-of-state FOIA use
Political row erupts as thousands of violent criminals let off without
formal ...
WalesOnline
The figures released today are based on Freedom of Information requests
obtained from police forces in Wales and England by the Labour party. It has
prompted backlash from Labour Ministers who claim the figures are the result of
massive cuts to police ...
Govt to conduct RTI study to assess cost on providing info - Zee News
Zee News
New Delhi: The Centre has decided to conduct a detailed study on
implementation of its flagship Right to Information (RTI) Act aimed at
assessing public's satisfaction and government's cost in providing information
to applicants. The Department of ...
Opinion | Danes say “no, thank you” to restricted freedom of information
The Copenhagen Post
Jesper Tynell, Oluf Jørgensen, Pernille Boye Koch and Lars Rugaard are a
few of the impressive list of academics, politicians and award-winning
journalists who tenaciously oppose the new freedom of information act,
offentlighedsloven, presented by the ...
Red Flags Raised Over State-Funded NGOs Lack of Activity
Asbarez Armenian News
The Yerevan-based Center for Freedom of Information has obtained detailed
information about the funding, provided from 2010-2012, from the Armenian
Finance Ministry. The latter had to make it available in accordance with
Armenia's freedom of ...
CIC slams cops for wrong data on 26/11
Times of India
Four years after IPS officer Ashok Kamte was killed in the Mumbai terror
attacks, law-enforcement agencies either refused to part with basic data or
provided wrong information on call records to his widow Vinita Kamte. She had
invoked the Right to ...
Fury as NHS spends £5M on taxis to ferry patients around Scotland
Scottish Daily Record
DAMNING figures have been obtained through freedom of information but
some health chiefs claim cabs may be the only option of transport in some
cases. Patients are being ferried around by taxis. HEALTH chiefs have been
accused of running a chauffeur ...
Zahid Abdullah - Programme Manager
Transparency and Right to Information Program
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Centre for Peace and Development Initiatives, Pakistan (CPDI-Pakistan)
Tel: 051-2101594; 4319430; 2108287
URL: www.cpdi-pakistan.org
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