Trustees tampered with FOI request for expense reports, emails suggest

Email exchanges between director of education Donna Quan, above, and freedom of
information officer Maria Mavroyannis reveal Mavroyannis had concerns about
document transparency.

Toronto trustees and senior staff interfered and tampered with documents related to trustee expenses requested by the Toronto Star, say emails sent by the board’s own freedom of information officer.

Maria Mavroyannis, a lawyer herself, was so concerned by the “clear interference in my ability to carry out the FOI request responsibly” that her emails say she sought outside legal help to ensure “we have discharged our duties responsibly” given the “misinformation being provided … and given evident trustee tampering.”

The Star obtained these emails following a freedom of information request, or FOI, to the Toronto District School Board seeking copies of correspondence between Mavroyannis, the board’s executive officer of governance, and director of education Donna Quan.

Much of the document released to the Star was blacked out, including the identity of the trustees and board staff. The Star is appealing the decision to censor the names and will, via an appeal, ask Ontario’s privacy commissioner’s office to investigate alleged tampering.  (more...)

Trustees tampered with FOI request for expense reports, emails suggest

H/T to Socialist Studies

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