WASHINGTON (AP) — The general counsel for Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Monday warned the attorney for an anonymous government employee not to directly share a top-secret complaint about Gabbard’s handling of classified material with members of Congress. The letter to attorney Andrew Bakaj is the latest escalation in the back-and-forth accusations over […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican leaders of the House and Senate intelligence committees have rejected a top-secret complaint from an anonymous government insider alleging that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard withheld classified information for political reasons. The responses this week from Sen. Tom Cotton and Rep. Rick Crawford mean the complaint is unlikely to […]

The office of the public sector integrity commissioner says it’s being overwhelmed by its workload and that eliminating the backlog of files would require more analysts and lawyers. The office investigates whistle-blowing complaints from public servants who believe they have evidence of wrongdoing in the public service as well as complaints from public servants that […]

On May 18, 2016, FIPA and the BC Civil Liberties Association filed a complaint with the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of BC relating to their investigation  into “the disclosure of details of active freedom of information requests on the Open Information website.” We point to a number of issues with the BC government’s seemingly out-of-the-blue announcement that […]

Download letter now Letter from the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner in response to BC FIPA’s complaint about the BC government refusing to post reports.

Nobody likes going public with embarrassing reports, but the B.C. government has conjured some of its most creative legal analyses yet in an attempt to keep less flattering information out of the public realm. The B.C. government has refused to post both the McNeil report, which examines the mysterious Ministry of Health data breach firings, […]

Download letter now Complaint letter to Commissioner Denham re BC government refusing to post reports.  

August 28, 2014 Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner PO Box 9038 4th Floor — 947 Fort Street Victoria, BC V8W 9A4 BY E Mail: info@oipc.bc.ca Dear Commissioner: RE: Request for investigation into excessive collection of information by police forces in employment applications I am writing to ask you to conduct an investigation under s.42 […]

Request for an investigation into the failure of the BC Government to release information about the Mount Polley tailings pond, contrary to s.25 of FIPPA. Download the complaint