During the COVID-19 pandemic, staff at Vancouver Coastal Health broke FOI laws in eight out of 10 requests, prompting Information and Privacy Commissioner for B.C. Michael Harvey to pen eight recommendations for reform; Harvey says some progress is being made.
Vancouver Coastal Health routinely broke access to information laws during the COVID-19 pandemic and, in turn, jeopardized the public’s trust in the health-care system, according to an audit by Information and Privacy Commissioner for B.C. Michael Harvey.
With the authority putting up a curtain against the public’s eye and right to access information, Harvey warned that continuing to do so imperils the public’s trust in the health-care system. While the authority responded to 28 per cent of applications within the 30-day benchmark, in the 72 per cent of cases where it did not, staff took, on average, 104 days to respond.
The authority was also found to be lacking in proactively disclosing general records including, but not limited to, financial statements, policies, health inspection reports, water quality reports, and overdose surveillance updates. Eliopoulos’ salary is, however, shown on the B.C. government public accounts list, showing she was paid $405,584 last year, with total compensation reaching $436,202.Glacier Media offered Eliopoulos and Ballem an opportunity to comment on Harvey’s report but did not receive a response by the time of publishing.
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