Tag: Time Extensions
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FOI Assist Seminar Series: Time Extensions and Staged Access Plans Under Ontario’s New FOI Rules
The next FOI Assist seminar will provide guidance on employing time extensions, second time extensions, and staged access plans under the recent Bill 97 changes to FIPPA and MFIPPA. Significant changes to Ontario’s FOI process are coming into effect in July, including new business-day timelines, second time extensions, and staged access plans for larger requests.…
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Registration Link for Seminar #4
As of July, Bill 97 introduces many changes to Ontario’s Freedom of Information framework under FIPPA and MFIPPA. This seminar will examine Ontario’s updated FOI rules for time extensions and the newly created staged access plans.
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Action plan for large FOI requests
Today’s article is intended to give institutions an initial plan of action they can follow when a large request is received
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Should You Include a Time Extension in Your Interim Fee Estimate?
When an institution expects that it will be issuing both a fee deposit request as well as a time extension for the same FOI request, how should it proceed? Should the institution issue the time extension first, the fee deposit request first, or should it issue them both in the same letter?
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An Introduction to the FOI Appeal Process
In today’s article, I want to provide an introduction to the FOI appeal process from the perspective of the institution. My main goal is to build the confidence of the many FOI professionals in Ontario who have seldom or never faced an appeal.
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An Introduction to Freedom of Information
Up to this point I’ve written many articles on the “finer points” of responding to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests. But today I would like to present an article addressed to all of those people who are just starting out as an FOI professional – who might appreciate
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