{"id":3798,"date":"2014-03-09T01:21:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T09:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=3798"},"modified":"2014-03-09T01:21:43","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T09:21:43","slug":"b-c-s-freedom-of-information-system-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/09\/b-c-s-freedom-of-information-system-by-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"B.C.&#8217;s freedom-of-information system by the numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/safe_image.php_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3799\" alt=\"safe_image.php\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/safe_image.php_-300x180.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/safe_image.php_-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/safe_image.php_.png 434w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia photo<\/p>\n<p>VANCOUVER &#8211; Some facts and figures about British Columbia&#8217;s freedom-of-information system:<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The total number of freedom-of-information requests for general records (a category that excludes requests for personal information) that were closed each fiscal year: 2010-11: 2,759; 2011-12: 3,162; 2012-13: 4,554.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The proportion of general requests for which no records were found: 2010-11: 21 per cent; 2011-12: 25 per cent; 2012-13: 26 per cent; 2013-14 (year-to-date as of Dec. 31, 2013): 20 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Requests to the premier&#8217;s office that found no records: 2010-11: 30 per cent; 2011-12: 45 per cent; 2012-13: 42 per cent; 2013-14 (year-to-date as of Dec. 31, 2013): 27 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The ministries with the highest rates of requests that produced no records in the current fiscal year: Natural Gas Development (32 per cent); Advanced Education (28 per cent); Office of the Premier (27 per cent).<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Proportion of requests that resulted in either full or partial disclosure: 2010-2011: 51 per cent; 2011-2012: 54 per cent; 2012-2013: 57 per cent; 2013-2014 (as of Dec. 31): 62 per cent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia photo VANCOUVER &#8211; Some facts and figures about British Columbia&#8217;s freedom-of-information system: \u2014 The total number of freedom-of-information requests &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":3799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}