Wait — there’s more than one? When I was asked to manage the FOI program at the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games, I spent the first few weeks interpreting FIPPA directly using only David Goodis’s excellent annotated Act. My life got a whole lot easier when I discovered the Ministry of Government Services’ Freedom of InformationContinue reading “The Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Manuals”
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The 2018-2019 Annotated Ontario Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Acts by David Goodis
The Annotated Ontario Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Acts by David Goodis is the go-to guide to Ontario’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) as well as to Ontario’s Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (MFIPPA). The 2018-2019 edition just came out this week and my copyContinue reading “The 2018-2019 Annotated Ontario Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Acts by David Goodis”
Resources for FOI professionals in Ontario
Below are some resources and reference materials that FOI professionals working at Ontario’s provincial and municipal institutions should find helpful. Online Resources Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario https://www.ipc.on.ca/ The Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPCO) provides oversight of Ontario’s access and privacy laws. The IPCO website publishes hundreds of guidance documents intended to promoteContinue reading “Resources for FOI professionals in Ontario”
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