Tag: Fees
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The $5 Application Fee: Sorry, No Refunds!
What should an institution do if a requestor asks for a refund of the $5 application fee? And are there any situations where an institution should refund the $5 fee as a matter of course?
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Alternative Fee Systems for Publicly Available Information
A recent decision from the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario makes it clear that in some cases, institutions can replace the standard FOI fee structure with a different fee structure better suited to the type of records requested.
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Are Body-Worn Camera Recordings “Labour and Employment” Records?
There is currently an appeal underway before the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPCO) which raises an important issue relating to body-worn camera footage and which may have greater implications over how we apply exemptions and exclusions to records in general. As reported by Tom Cardoso and Robyn Doolittle in the Globe & Mail,…
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New FOI fee led to drop in number of requests in B.C.
I’m interested in the significant drop in the number of requests, and wonder what to make of it.
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Charging Fees When No Records Are Found?
Ontario’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) and its Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (MFIPPA) both give institutions the right to charge fees for the work involved in responding to an Freedom of Information (FOI) request. Besides the $5.00 application fee (which is applicable to every disclosure request),…
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