Transparency and Accountability Network

On 13 March 2012, 1:30 pm, the House Committee on Public Information will hold a hearing on the Freedom of Information bill. It will be held at Conference Rooms 1&2 of the Ramon V. Mitra Building, Batasan, Quezon City.

For your reference, you may download the Malacanang-amended version of the bill from this site.

Just go to the "Downloads" tab and search for the document, "Freedom of Information bill- Malacanang-amended version."

For more information, you may get in touch with Reylynne F. Dela Paz at 09228266775.

Thank you!

The Right to Know. Right Now! Coalition welcomes the recent public endorsement by President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino III of the passage of the Freedom of Information (FOI) law and the release of the executive’s final proposed bill. 

The President’s endorsement achieves two things: it removes the main reason why the bill has been stalled in the legislative wringer, particularly at the House of Representatives, and 2. it resolves the “concerns” about the bill that the President has expressed, thereby reducing the danger of a Presidential veto.

Yet most important of all, the endorsement reaffirms the Aquino administration’s commitment to transparency, accountability, and good governance, and clears the way for the long-overdue passage of the FOI law as part of the larger struggle to advance our human right to information.