The Globe and Mail reports that British Columbia’s Civil Forfeiture Office (CFO) must release the names of its employees after an appeal to the Information and Privacy Commissioner (IPC) was dismissed by a judge. Last year, the IPC decided the CFO could not withhold employee names due to fairness and transparency concerns about the agency. BC’s Ministry of Justice had challenged the IPC decision to the provincial Supreme Court, but the court denied that request. Jeremy Maddock, the citizen who originally filed the Freedom of Information request, said, “It’s been a long process. It shouldn’t have taken this long, but I feel good that I was a part of hopefully bringing some accountability to that office.”
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