Private use of social media advice provided to employees
Dear Queensland Department of Education and Training,
This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act.
I request documents related to the ten most recent instances where an employee has sought information, advice, guidance, or opinion on their social media use in a private capacity.
I limit the scope of documents to:
- the original request from the employee
- the agency/department's response
- any follow-up questions and response
- only those sent to a relevant HR / conduct / social media (or similar) team (rather than managers across all areas of the organisation)
- where the original request was created in the last 2 years
Should you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me.
Yours faithfully,
James Smith
Dear Mr Smith
Thank you for your email.
Please note that in Queensland the Freedom of Information Act was repealed
in July 2009. It was replaced with the Right to Information Act 2009 (the
RTI Act).
If you wish to pursue your request then you will need to make the
application under the RTI Act.
RTI applications can be lodged by using the online application portal
which can be found at this link - [1]http://www.rti.qld.gov.au - or by
filling out the attached application form.
As you are seeking access to records that do not contain your personal
information you will be required to pay the $48.00 application fee.
Please note that the online application portal allows this payment to be
made by credit/debit card. If you intend to pay the fee by cheque or money
order please make it out to “Department of Education and Training”.
If you have any questions regarding your request or the process more
generally then please contact our office on (07) 3513 5879.
Regards
Andrew Smith
Principal Information Officer
Legal and Administrative Law Branch
Department of Education and Training
P: 07 3513 5879
E: [2][email address]
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Note 1: Mostly I classify a response like this one to say "clarification requested" because the agency has told the applicant that some more information (or money!) is needed before the request will be processed. This time, I have put the response in the category of "refused" because it is more than 1 year since the agency responded and the applicant has not made a follow-up. This does not mean that the agency will refuse the request when an application is made in the correct (required).
Note 2: Although an application under the Freedom of Information Act 1983 of the Commonwealth of Australia does not require an application fee, this is not the case with applications in the states and territories of Australia. Then an applicant must usually pay a fee, or the request is not valid. Also, the Commonwealth agencies might demand payment of a fee to cover extra processing costs. If the fee is not paid, the request will not be processed.
Note 2: It can be a problem when an applicant sends out a very large bulk request. Although it is convenient for the applicant, very often the application will not be valid. This is usually the fact when an applicant uses Right to Know to apply to an agency of a state or territory; see Note 2. When so many responses are received it is inconvenient to work out how to continue ... or even to classify the responses and often an applicant does not classify the responses so they create a backlog of unclassified responses on Right to Know.