JOIC and the Freedom of Information Law (FOI)JOIC and the Freedom of Information Law (FOI)
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20 November 2024.Prepared internally, no external costs.
Request
In October 2023, in a response to FOI 557597830, the government refused to divulge the cost of a data protection conference being hosted in Jersey because the Jersey Office of the Information Commissioner was exempt from FOI?
Is this correct? When was the decision made to exempt the JOIC from the FOI law?
Response
Schedule 1 of the Law sets out to whom the Law applies.
Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011
The Law was lodged by the Privileges and Procedures Committee in 2011 and approved by the States Assembly in 2011.
States Assembly | Draft Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 P-39-2011
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