Toronto police awarded for blocking access to data needed to hold 'taxpayer-funded agencies accountable'
Jolly said these types of tactics are common when journalists report on police forces across Canada.
“At best, it points to public agencies needing to up their record-keeping game rather than playing ‘hard to get’ with journalists. At worst, it raises the fundamental question: what is there to hide?” he added. The awards are intended to bring public attention to government or publicly-funded agencies that “work hard to hide information to which the public has a right to under access to information legislation.”, the RCMP was recognized with “an unprecedented double-citation” in the law enforcement category.
The RCMP also won the award in 2017, with the CAJ noting that year that the force failed to respond to a single request for information filed under theThe ATIA gives Canadian citizens, permanent residents and individuals and corporations located in Canada the right to have access to information in federal government records that are not of a personal nature. There are roughly 260 government institutions currently subject to the ATIA.
Other Code of Silence award winners last year included Stratford City Council , the provincial government of British Columbia , and Indigenous Services Canada .Share this article in your social network
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