At yesterday's Township Council, Cllr. Kim Richter announced a Notice of Motion that would require Township staff to advise her and other members of council of all Freedom of Information (FoI) requests from the general public. Council would receive copies of requested documents and more. This is a huge departure from her "openness and Transparency" double-speak election platforms. It is clearly a knee-jerk reaction from Richter in her futile attempt to target this blog.Richter's folly has far reaching implications and legal challenges ahead. Imagine a Township staff member who files an FoI request in a whistle blower case? Now all of council will receive the details of this staffer's request and exposes that person to possible action or dismissal. WOW, we do hope the local CUPE and other unions are paying attention to this latest Richter silliness. Yes, the same Kim Richter who last year was championing a Whistle Blower Policy for the Township, now this week seeks to rally her uniformed troops together with desk lamps and magnifiers to snuff out freedom and liberty for the general public.
When our Editorial Board caught wind of this nonsense this morning, we immediately tasked our legal council to check on the legality of this nonsensical motion and to alert provincial officials of this attempt to is regulate their domain and usurp Provincial Privacy Legislation.
As the original FoI that reached the Langley Record through unconventional means involved Mayor Green and not Cllr. Richter, this has set off new alarm bells here at The Langley Record. Does Township Councillor Kim Richter have something to hide? Something so damaging that she must try to stifle or frustrate our rights and freedoms?
We had obtained election disclosures some time ago and was going to publish several years of Cllr. Richter's disclosure documents. Quite simply, Cllr. Kim Richter is not worth much of our time. But stay tuned as The Langley Record digs deep to uncover more news in a Langley Record Exclusive Investigation forthcoming. News that the local media deny you each and every week.
5 comments:
Smells like a rat to me - what is there to hide? Must be something she doesn't want others to find out - hum!
FOI that would you Editor!
Fear, simply paranoid fear on her part.
I guess that is what you get when you sit beside Tricky Ricky!
For a guy who carps about openness and transparency, it's you that is hiding behind an anonymous byline. And its because of that that calling yourself an investigative journalist is absolutely laughable. Until you start showing some objectivity and come out from under your anonymous shell, you're nothing more than an old man with a blog. (which is fine, by the way - but to compare yourself with local papers, or any paper, is just assinine)
Hey Dan-
If you like getting your news from local papers that are politically correct and afraid to dig, be our guest. We have BALLS and we don't pussy foot around. We are anonymous because a certain Township Councillor has a blog and refuses to take any ownership of it. When confronted about posts and articles, she claims others have control of it. Perhaps you Dan are her "editor"? Also, you should practice what you preach and put your full name here instead just "Dan". We think that is just asinine of you Dan, Bob or whatever your name is. Crawl on your belly back to your Richter camp and hang around on the dark side for the remainder of you life. Our reports are factual and not for the weak.
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