>> I also hear Zainab's statement a bout frivolous pleas and such. But >> the act is a law and everyone has to abide by it or amend it. > > > That is the most interesting thing about laws. They have fantastic > unintended consequences, as do regulations. This does not mean that I am > advocating people don't use RTI. It is interesting to note what happens > when > people begin to use the law rather excessively and frivolously. Hirschmann
I don't have any experience with RTI requests, but a significant part of my job involves dealing with disclosure/discovery issues in litigation, and the process of answering a disclosure request seems to be quite similar to the process of answering an RTI request. Take it from me that it is not easy and is a vast amount of work - the simplest and easiest sounding questions can be incredibly hard (and time consuming) to answer. I'm sure lots of bureaucrats are abusing the weakness of RTI enforcement provisions, but it just isn't that easy to do in many cases. Badri
