Information rights blog: Access to Information in Turbulent Times

Colleagues from the ICOs access to information and compliance department share their experiences and involvement in raising awareness of our regulation of access to information legislation.

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Thursday, December 12, 2019

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Colleagues from the ICOs access to information and compliance department share their experiences and involvement in raising awareness of our regulation of access to information legislation.
Access to Information in Turbulent Times
This is the first in a series of blog posts covering our regulation of access to information legislation.
I questioned whether we need to develop some new framing for access to information rights.
If were a public authority, its the publics information and while there will always be a request and receive aspect of access to information rights, I queried whether we need to start talking about a more fundamental duty to provide information.