Proposed Reforms to BC’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act

BC FIPA has presented a list of 11 recommendations regarding reforms to BC’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (“the Act”).

These recommendations are our top priorities for reform and cover the following issues:

• increasing routine release;
• better principles guiding retention and destruction of documents;
• restoring the coverage of the Act to all public and quasi-public bodies;
• re-interpreting or expanding the public interest exceptions;
• strengthening privacy protections;
• narrowing the exceptions in s. 12, 13, 14, and 15 that relate to cabinet confidences, policy advice, legal advice, and harm to law enforcement; and
• extending the time limit for appeals to the Commissioner

Read the full text of the recommendations (pdf).