Re: Freedom of information Act

From: RAKSHEETA JUGHDHARREE <raksheeta.jughdharree1_at_umail.uom.ac.mu>
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 20:14:03 +0400

Hello SM,

One would assume that there exists a Freedom of Information Act from the
above statement. Will there be a Freedom of Information act in Mauritius?

If the request was made via an email and there is still no response, maybe
sending a letter of request would help . If this also fails, I would pay
that transport authority a visit until they hopefully provide me with the
requested information.

Regards,
Raksheeta Jughdharree


On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 6:03 PM, S Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com> wrote:

> Hi Sruti,
>
> The following is from a presentation about security and safe keeping of
> official information at a Civil Service Induction by Mr P. Dookee, Data
> Protection Officer/Senior Data Protection Officer:
>
> "All classified data is exempt from the
>
> - Freedom of Information Act as well as many other laws and
> regulations."
>
> There isn't any Freedom of Information Act for Mauritius. Would a person
> assume that there is such an act after reading the above?
>
> Here is a fictitious problem: The buses on the bus route between your home
> and your place of work are usually old. You would like to find out whether
> it is a coincidence. You sent a request for information about that to the
> transport authority. You didn't receive a reply. What do you do?
>
> Regards,
> S. Moonesamy
>
>
Received on Thu Mar 10 2016 - 16:14:22 PST