Private rights for the private sector
Should FOI be extended to give citizens more right to know what private institutions get up to?
This question is raised by some , which has suggested that the Scottish Executive could extend the FOI (Scotland) Act to cover private sector bodies such as independent schools, private prisons and the press.
It's based on a of institutions which were suggested as appropriate for FOI in the Executive's recent consultative exercise.
In fact, while freedom of information may well be widened in scope to cover various private bodies which rely on public money, such as housing associations, most organisations listed are certainly safe from the public right to know.
So Jack Straw still what modes of travel are favoured by journalists who campaign about climate change.
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Famine or feast. My efforts under FOI have been purely selfish but how much Freedom of Information can we deal with?
That headline "No hiding place as plans to extend Freedom of Information unveiled" bought to mind a joke I heard years ago about optimism.
Two lone Finnish soldiers in the Winter War gazing towards hordes of Russian soldiers charging towards them. One Finn turns to the other and says dryly "So many Russians. Where will we bury them all?"
More freedom of information, more information perhaps but any more clarity as a result?