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Cayman Islands First Freedom of Information Unit Report on Implementation January 2009 (PDF)

The Freedom of Information Law was brought into effect on January 5th 2009. The FOI Unit will issue a monthly statistical report on implementation which will summarise the number of FOI requests received by public authorities and the decisions that were made during that month. Public authorities have up to a maximum of thirty calendar days to respond to an FOI request with a decision to grant, refuse or defer access and therefore this reporting period will not reflect decisions on all requests submitted during the month of January.

Between January 5, 2009 and January 31, 2009, eighty-eight public authorities received a combined total of one hundred and seventeen requests for information under the FOI Law.

Of the thirty-six requests that were closed in this time period, twelve were granted in full, two
were granted in part, and five were exempt in their entirety. Four applicants requested
records that were available in the public domain and eight other applicants asked for certain
information but the Information Managers determined that their public authority held no
records related to that request. Three requests were withdrawn by the applicants, one
request was refused under Section 9(c) of the FOI Law and one request was deferred under
Section 11(2).

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