Your "Right to Know" (but only what we choose to tell you)

Today SHG has issued an Update on the “Code of Practice for Public Access to SHG Information”. Read the update at http://www.sainthelena.gov.sh/public-access-to-shg-information-update-on-code-of-practice/

Only 26 requests since June 2017?  And, as we remember it, it was also 26 when the last "update" was issued, some months ago. 

People do not bother using this policy because it is discretionary - you ask and SHG decides what it will release. 

The whole point of Freedom of Information is to expose things SHG would prefer to keep hidden – errors, mismanagement and, perhaps, corruption.  A discretionary policy cannot achieve this.

St Helena needs Statutory Freedom of Information, where SHG is REQUIRED to publish information, even when it would prefer to hush something up.  Inward Investors will run a mile from an administration that keeps its secrets hidden.

https://www.facebook.com/StHelenaFreedomOfInformation/

http://sthelenafoi.org/