Some data and numbers for the federal government’s performance under the Access to Information Act (ATI). This data may have been around for a while but I just stumbled across it today and think a few bits to be worthwhile.
This data, published by the government, is for the fiscal year 2011-2012 which would have ended on March 31, 2012. The most recent complete fiscal year for the government is the one that just ended a few weeks ago on March 31, 2013 but I suspect it will be a while before the books are closed on that year. So the data on FY2012 is, so far as I know, the most recent complete year snapshot.
Requests under the Access to Information Act | Number of Requests |
---|---|
Received during reporting period | 43,194 |
Outstanding from previous reporting period | 8,138 |
Total | 51,332 |
Closed during reporting period | 43,664 |
Carried over to next reporting period | 7,668 |
Who made all these requests? Continue reading The numbers on the federal Access to Information Act (2012)