Aww

So, my case came back. In a Mike Davis-head-exploding result, they decided that the vote files are, in fact, official information, but that the Constitution allows the By-Laws to specify delays which are then automatically considered "due," so the Elections Council can withhold the information. I think this interpretation completely destroys any semblance of a Freedom of Information Right, because it basically says "The information is available unless the Senate decides not to make it available through a By-Law." The whole point of a Freedom of Information Right is to prohibit ASUC officials from keeping information from ASUC members.

Oh, well.

posted by Beetle Aurora Drake 4/08/2008 11:13:00 PM #
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::picking up pieces of my head:: Post the decision when you can. As I recall, once you determine something to be official, the FOI clause kicks in and is inviolable. Sounds like they're trying to avoid the murkier question of determining what is and is not official. Hopefully they have the stones to enforce the attandence clause.

# posted by  Anonymous : 7:16 AM, April 09, 2008

 

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