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I’m a Canadian citizen in Alberta. I made a freedom of information request for some aggregate statistics, and got a response from the agency indicating that the
by asfarley 6y ago
I’m a Canadian citizen in Alberta. I made a freedom of information request for some aggregate statistics, and got a response from the agency indicating that the information wouldn’t be available for several months, allegedly due to a “high volume of requests”.
From my perspective, if the information is delivered months after being relevant, it’s the same as denying the request.
In general, it seems like “public institutions” don’t act like they’re beholden to the public. They act just like private institutions whose primary concern is self-preservation.
- koheripbal 6y agoIt's not like they can just take your one request and push it to the head of the line because you say it's urgent. Everyone gets their turn.
- bonchicbongenre 6y agoThat was not the original commenter's point at all. Doing things in sequence is fine. Doing things so slowly as to be useless is not.
- koheripbal 6y agoYou are assuming malicious intent in the duration of the backlog - which is not the case. FOIA requests routinely take months and/or years.