ISLAMABAD: With low response rate of government departments towards
information requests filed under Rights to Information (RTI) Law, the Law faces serious implementation challenges which require urgent government attention to strengthen RTI in public institutions and empower Punjab Information Commission.
First, we examined the total structural model (lesser and greater sensitivity to an
information request), including the path coefficients.
At 815, more than 80 percent of all the user
information requests during the second half of 2012 came from the U.S., up 20 percent from 679 during the first half of the year.
A police source said: "We have received a Freedom of
Information request from a gentleman who resides in the North Pole asking for a list of persons who have been naughty and nice."
The request made the second spot on the Local Government Association's list of the top ten most bizarre Freedom of
Information Requests in 2011.
The latest Evidence-Based Home Visiting Supplemental
Information Request (SIR) has recently been released by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) with collaboration from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) as outlined in the first Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA).
The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) launched action after a failed Freedom of
Information request on experiments carried out at Newcastle University.
Answers to a Freedom of
Information request revealed huge differences in the way police forces across England and Wales handle requests to remove DNA records by people arrested and cleared.
AU attorneys have made a similar
information request in Darby, Mont., where the school board recently voted to require science teachers to "assess evidence for and against" evolution.
Readers also should take note of an addendum called "Valuation
Information Request List," a checklist for collecting background information about a subject company.
Allowing tabular schedules may permit some taxpayers to satisfy the IRS's
information request with an existing schedule.
filed a Freedom of
Information request with the Defense Logistics Information Service, which is part of the DOD.
