The Ottawa Citizen reports Monika Ferenczy, a consultant at Ottawa-based Horizon Educational Consulting, received just 28 responses to freedom-of-information requests to 76 school boards across Ontario. The lack of responses raises concern about the school boards' compliance with the province’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. Twenty-three of the boards never responded, 10 said Ferenczy could have the information if she paid for it, and six denied access completely. One board, the Grand Erie District School Board, claimed it did not know if they were permitted to give Ferenczy access to such records. “We encourage any requester who has not received a response within 30 days to contact our office. We have an expedited process to deal with these situations, which we call ‘deemed refusals,’” Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner Brian Beamish said in an email.
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