TAILORING THE LEGISLATION FOR LOCAL PUBLIC BODIES
Freedom of Information Amendments

8. Add a new discretionary exception to protect in-camera
deliberations of local public bodies from disclosure.

Examine legislative options to place reasonable limits on the topics
which can be considered in-camera.

Examine legislative options to specify the minimum information
about an in-camera meeting that must be released subsequently,
e.g., factual background material not subject to other exceptions
including topic and voting patterns.

Specifically exclude faculty records containing research materials
and lecture notes.

Except from disclosure research data contained in records of public
bodies where it would deprive an individual of priority of
publication.

Make the legal advice exception mandatory where the public body is
not the client invo!ved.

Ensure confidential police informants are secure by protectiny ‘rom
disclosure “information furnished by a confidential source 0
respect to a law enforcement matter”.

Make the intergovernmental relations exception mandatory without
time-limit, if and only if, the information is law enforcement
information supplied in confidence by a law enforcement agency of
another government.

Take the necessary steps to ensure that all staff of the
Commissioner’s office require a security clearance as a condition of
employment.

Protection of Privacy Amendments

17. Enable the head of a public body to refuse to confirm or deny the
existence of a third party’s personal information.