Annual Report: 2005-2006

The third type of systemic investigation that is undertaken by the Information Commissioner is the expanded report card process that collects and assesses data from selected government institutions on a host of performance-related variables. These expanded report card investigations allow the Commissioner to obtain early identification of problem areas such as: abuse of time extensions, inflation of fees, failure to document reasons for exemptions, overuse of exemptions, poor records management, failure to exploit opportunities for pro-active and informal disclosure, political interference, and insufficient resources and/or training.

In this reporting year, the Information Commissioner undertook follow-up investigations of government institutions who did not achieve ideal compliance last year, and a number of expanded report card reviews. The results of this year’s report card reviews are provided in Chapter II of this report.