FOI Related Services

FOI Officer Training and Workshops (back to FOI Related services)

FOI Solutions offers a range of training seminars and workshops for FOI officers from the novice to the highly experienced. This training occurs in the Melbourne metropolitan area and regional areas. Commonwealth FOI Act Training can be conducted on site throughout the country. An indication of the topics covered for the basic and intermediate/advanced training workshops are as follows:

Basic :

• Why we have FOI legislation?
• How to process a request. What to do when a request is received?
• When can you refuse to process a request?
• Fees and charges
• Time limits, decisions, internal and external review
• Amendment of personal records
• Workshop problems
• Question and answer session.

• Exemptions most relevant to your government agency
• Statements of reasons
• Interrelationship between FOI and other access regimes (eg privacy)
• Interrelationship between FOI and other legal process (eg discovery, subpoenas)
• Additional sources of information
• Workshop problems
• Question and answer sessions.

Training can be conducted exclusively for your agency or you can register as part of our usual group sessions where up to 15 individuals might participate.  We conduct training sessions regularly throughout the year.

From time to time FOI Solutions also offers lunchtime or half day training on discrete topics of interest for FOI Officers or decision makers.

For more information about training including please click here.

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