{"id":69537,"date":"2016-01-26T04:03:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T09:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=69537"},"modified":"2016-01-26T04:03:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T09:03:42","slug":"info-watchdogs-call-on-governments-for-duty-to-document-key-public-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/01\/26\/info-watchdogs-call-on-governments-for-duty-to-document-key-public-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Info watchdogs call on governments for &#8216;duty to document&#8217; key public decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled-design-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-65579\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65579\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled-design-2.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled design-2\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled-design-2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Untitled-design-2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';color: black\">OTTAWA\u2014Canada&#8217;s information watchdogs are calling for laws that would force public officials to write important things down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';color: black\">In a joint resolution, federal and provincial information commissioners express concern about a trend toward no records turning up in response to formal access requests from the public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';color: black\">They want governments to create a legislated duty requiring public bodies to document matters related to their deliberations, actions and decisions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';color: black\">The duty would be accompanied by oversight and enforcement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';color: black\">The watchdogs argue a lack of records not only diminishes accountability, it compromises the ability of public organizations to make evidence-based decisions, fulfil legal obligations and preserve the historical record.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';color: black\">They say a duty to document does not mean drafting more records, but rather creating and keeping the right ones.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA\u2014Canada&#8217;s information watchdogs are calling for laws that would force public officials to write important things down. In a joint &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":65579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-69537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-original","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69537","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}