A school principal and union representative discuss the growing burden of Official Information Act requests on schools, highlighting misuse, automation, and the need for reform to modernize the law and reduce administrative strain on education staff.
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No, you're quite right. And look, I have much of the respect and spans as a union. I mean, I probably wouldn't go as far as saying that we need to be exempt because there has to be a balance of accountability and there are some reasonable things to ask questions about. However, this case here took up in some schools a lot more time because it meant digging through board minutes of conversations and outlining policies and procedures that are publicly available in most cases. for the sake of somebody doing a bit of a research project and I think what it highlighted was the ease of somebody getting all of our email addresses and sending them all out as a mass. response and if you were to add up the hours from across the country in two and a half thousand schools then it's a huge response to help somebody with a university research project and also an OIA request I mean surely if you actually want information to help in the cause of tertiary education you'd simply ask
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