Palace wants ‘deliberative process’ clause in FoI By Mario F. Fetalino Jr. 12/11/2011

Palace wants ‘deliberative process’ clause in FoI

By Mario F. Fetalino Jr. 12/11/2011

Malacañang had sought several exceptions to the mandatory disclosures of information and documents to be covered by the proposed Freedom of Information (FoI) Act among which included “national security” and the President’s “deliberative process” for it to endorse the approval of the bill that has been stalled in Congress for the past 15 years.

President Aquino, who has made the passage of the FoI bill that seeks to require government to divulge information imbued with public interest, among his campaign promises supposedly as part of transparency in government, has recently been balking at its passage citing dangers on national security.

The Right to Know, Right Now Coalition, a group of civil society and media organizations, said Sen. Gregorio Honasan, chairman of the Senate committee on public information, had pledged action to speed up the approval of the measure and that a committee report will be submitted to plenary action by the first quarter of next year..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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