Tag: Police
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FOI Assist is at Science North!
FOI Assist is proud to be a sponsor and exhibitor at the 2025 Freedom of Information Police Network (FOIPN) Conference, taking place this week at Science North in Sudbury, Ontario.
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FOI Tactics for Thriving
It was a pleasure to speak at the Freedom of Information Police Network (FOIPN) Fall Conference this week in Oakville. Thank you to the FOIPN conference committee for putting on such a wonderful event!
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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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Informal Requests
Institutions have an obligation to provide records in response to FOI requests; however, this does not prevent institutions from providing records or information without using the official FOI process.
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The Absurd Result Principle
It was a privilege to speak last week to all of the attendees of the Freedom of Information Police Network (FOIPN) Fall Conference at the Belleville Police Service Headquarters in Belleville, Ontario. I was asked to deliver a presentation on the Absurd Result Principle, a legal principle with a long history in the Canadian and…
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