Political parties and journalists use the system to hold government accountable.
B.C.’s information and privacy commissioner says freedom of information request application fees should be dropped despite a newly released review finding mixed reaction to those charges.
Political parties and journalists use the system to hold government accountable while researchers and business use it for multiple purposes. When the dust of the protests settled, FIPPA was amended in November 2021 to allow public bodies to charge a $10 application fee for general record requests. That was, however, on top of public bodies’ existing authority to charge fees for processing access requests.
“It is not clear how much of this drop related to the $10 application fee, because the Official Opposition were making fewer requests even prior to the new fee in response to existing processing charges applied by the B.C. government,” the review said. McEvoy’s office reviewed the B.C. government’s first six months of data following the imposition of the fee and compared it to the identical six-month periods from the two previous years.
“Like political parties, media play a vital role in a free and democratic society. Their work in holding governments to account for their actions is crucial,” the review said.
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