Freedom of Information

As a public authority, the Office of the Auditor General is committed to openness, transparency and serving the public interest in compliance with the Freedom of Information Act.

The original FOI law was passed on 19 October 2007 and came into effect in January 2009. It gives the public a right of access to all types of records held by public authorities, but also sets out some exemptions from that right.

We want to help you find the information you are interested in.  If you want to request information from the Office of the Auditor General, you should initially look at the OAG Publication Scheme (FOI) 2017 and the disclosure log to see if the information you seek has already been published.

We will respond to your request promptly. The Act requires public authorities to respond within 30 calendar days, allowing an extension of an additional 30 calendar days if needed. We will always acknowledge receipt of FOI requests made to the Information Manager and we will let you know if we need to extend the deadline. For detailed advice on what sorts of information is exempt please see the FOI Unit website.

There is no application fee and no fee for going to a public authority and looking at a record requested by FOI. However, a requester may be required to pay copying or change of format fees. Details concerning costs and payment are contained in the FOI Regulations which are available on the FOI Unit website.

If you make a request under the FOI Act and are not satisfied with our response, you are entitled to an internal review. If you believe you are entitled to an internal review by the Auditor General, please put your complaint in writing and either e-mail or post it to the Information Manager. Include your name, address, telephone number and the reference number at the top of our letter or e-mail to you. You have 30 calendar days from the date of receipt of a refusal to request an internal review. Please explain why you would like us to review our original response.

Under section 33 of the FOI Act, you may ask for an internal review of a response to your request:

• If you were refused access;
• If you were granted partial access to the record(s) specified in your application;
• If your request was deferred;
• If there was a refusal to amend or annotate an official document containing personal information; or
• If a fee was charged for action taken or if you disagree with the amount of the fee charged;

where the decision was taken by a person other than the Auditor General.

If you are dissatisfied with the internal review of our decision, or an internal review was not available, you can seek an appeal from the Office of the Ombudsman with the following contact details:

5th Floor, Anderson Square, 64 Shedden Road, George Town, Grand Cayman
P.O. Box 2252, Grand Cayman KY1-1107, CAYMAN ISLANDS
T: 345-946-6283
W:  www.ombudsman.ky
E: info@ombudsman.ky

A Class of Information is a way of collecting together similar types of information. The Office of the Auditor General has grouped its Classes of Information into broad categories (or functions) which reflect the Office's outputs.

This website forms the Office of the Auditor General's e-publication scheme, developed in compliance with Section 5 of the FOI Act.

The disclosure log is updated regularly and provides details of FOI requests that we feel may have a wider public interest.

Please note that the OAG disclosure log does not list everything that has been released under FOI. Some responses consist of large numbers of documents that are not held in electronic format. Where practical, the documents concerned have been scanned and made available online.

In addition to a summary of the original request, the log indicates whether or not the information was released and what exemptions, if any, were applied.

Where the actual reply has been reproduced, the applicant's name and other personal details were deleted.