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1. www.cbc.ca › news › canadaGovernment concerned about public scrutiny in mandating ...

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   Sep 25, 2024 · Documents prepared by the Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS) before the announcements of return to the office mandates were released to the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) under an access...

2. netivist.org › debate › public-scrutiny-open-governmentPublic scrutiny: Is the American Government too open?

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   How open should government be? Are transparency and public scrutiny always good? Is citizens' right to know more important than effective decision-making?

3. www.democracyweb.org › study-guide › accountabilityAccountability and Transparency: Essential Principles

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   Sep 14, 2024 · In order to hold officials accountable, the principle of transparency requires that the decisions and actions of those in government be open to public scrutiny and that the public has a right to access information about how government decisions are made and carried out.

4. www.civicsnation.org › 2018/06/25 › democracyPrinciples of Democracy: Accountability and Transparency

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   Jun 25, 2018 · Accountability ensures that government officials are held accountable to the citizenry; transparency gives the public the right to access government information and requires that decisions and actions made by the government are open to public scrutiny.

5. www.theglobeandmail.com › canada › article-access-toRedacted and out of reach: Canada’s access laws keep the ...

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   Nov 10, 2023 · Under FOI legislation, records in the possession of public institutions are supposed to be available to the public, except in specific circumstances in which releasing information could cause...

6. onlinelibrary.wiley.com › doi › fullTransparency and mistrust: Who or what should be made ...

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   Mar 18, 2019 · Most of the literature of transparency and trust, whether in public administration or development studies, focuses on different mechanisms and procedures to achieve transparency in data: putting documents online, expanded budgetary openness, and escalating auditing requirements.

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   Why is it important for the public to scrutinize?

   • Public scrutiny is important for holding public servants accountable for their mistakes and ensuring the fairness of decision making processes in modern democracies. For decades, reformers have worked to improve public access to information about decision making. The US government is more open than ever before, allowing citizens to scrutinize these processes.

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   Can transparency prevent public scrutiny?

   • Transparency makes it more difficult for policy-makers to lie to the public, but there are nine other formal exemptions to this transparency law that can delay or even prevent information disclosure and public scrutiny.

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   Should controversial records be treated as public?

   • Controversial records, perceived to be on the border between public and private status, should always be treated as public. Top political and public officials have much less “right to be forgotten” than ordinary citizens and thus it is their “duty to be remembered”. Closure periods for access to public records and archives.

   Public versus private status of records and archives ... - Springer

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   Can government records be accessed?

   • Or, as in the case of Kohl, government records are removed from the chancellor’s registry by the leaving chancellor and do not become public archives stored in the Federal Archives and cannot thus be accessed under the regulations of the applicable archives act.

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   What happens if the public is ignorant of government information?

   • When the public is made ignorant of government information and decisions, it cannot hold meaningful elections or make informed electoral choices. This leaves the government free to become self-serving, corrupt, and arbitrary.

   Principles of Democracy: Accountability and Transparency

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   What happens if a Government document is not voluntarily released?

   • The result is that everything that isn’t voluntarily released by government is closed by default – forever – until someone applies for it through an access request. From there, the information is scrutinized under modern FOI legislation, which was not designed to deal with decades-old documents.

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   Nov 2, 2021 · Therefore, there should be much stricter and more thorough public scrutiny, and a requirement for transparency. Controversial records, perceived to be on the border between public and private status, should always be treated as public.