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School, health records included in Palace's new list of FOI exceptions

Katrina Domingo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 23 12:45 PM

Malacañang has included more exceptions under a 2016 executive order that guarantees the public’s right to access of information from agencies under the executive branch, including school and health records of certain individuals. Read more »

Marcos says won't interfere in Rappler, Ressa cases

Job Manahan, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 24 03:42 PM

Rappler has been accused of tax evasion and cyber libel. Read more »

Institutions running FOI program must be independent: group

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 08 12:25 PM

Institutions running the freedom of information (FOI) program should be independent, transparency advocates said. Read more »

Marcos places FOI program under Office of the President

Katrina Domingo and Job Manahan, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 07 08:48 AM

Press Secretary Trixie Cruz Angeles has yet to discuss details of the EO and how it would affect the operations and services of the FOI program. Read more »

Ressa: ‘Integrity of facts’ gives democracy meaning

Wena Cos, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 09 01:26 AM

Nobel Peace Prize winner Ressa says journalism and technology are ‘2 sides of the same coin,’ and are signifiers of the the state of a democracy. Read more »

Transport chief Tugade keeps offshore firm off business list

Elyssa Lopez, Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
Updated as of Oct 06 02:46 AM

Tugade has not declared Solart Holdings Limited as a business interest in any of the SALNs he has filed since becoming a public official. Read more »

‘Ridiculous,’ SC says on drug war records as ‘national security’

Ellen T. Tordesillas
Updated as of Jun 06 10:13 PM

It is President Duterte’s choice if he is not interested to see the documentation of the killings based on his orders. But the public should not be prevented from knowing the truth. Read more »

Freedom of Information measure to be filed before Bangsamoro parliament

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 15 10:41 PM

A freedom of information bill will be filed before the Bangsamoro Parliament on Tuesday. Read more »

THROWBACK: How the Freedom of Information portal works

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 30 08:02 AM

Get to know how the Freedom of Information portal, where anyone can request for data and reports from different government agencies, works in this episode of "Failon Ngayon" from 2020. The program also looked into the challenges the FOI process faced about 3 years since it was implemented. Read more »

Cusi dethrones Villar as richest Cabinet member; restrictions to full SALN disclosure formalized in nearly all branches

Bethina Farin, Dave Abuel, and Che de los Reyes, ABS-CBN Investigative & Research Group
Updated as of Nov 06 11:03 PM

Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi has dethroned Public Works Secretary Mark Villar as the richest member of the Duterte cabinet in 2019.  Read more »

Duterte's SALNs secret; PCIJ shows wealth disclosures of all presidents since Cory

Karol Ilagan and Stanley Buenafe Gajete, PCIJ
Updated as of Oct 19 07:17 AM

For the past 30 years, the Office of the Ombudsman has made readily available the wealth disclosures of Philippine presidents and other government officials. Until now. Read more »

Laws governing wealth disclosure

Karol Ilagan, Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
Updated as of Oct 19 01:38 AM

There are three laws that govern the filing of the statement of assets, liabilities and net worth or SALN: Republic Act (RA) 3019 (Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act), the 1987 Constitution, and RA 6713 (Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards for Public Officials and Employees).   Read more »

A citizen’s guide to where and how to get a SALN

Karol Ilagan and Rex David Morales, PCIJ
Posted at Oct 19 01:10 AM

By law, actual copies of SALNs should be open for public inspection at reasonable hours or available for copying after 10 working days from the time they are filed. Read more »

What’s in a SALN anyway?

Karol Ilagan, Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
Posted at Oct 19 01:04 AM

By law, SALNs must contain detailed information on an official’s real and personal properties, loans and other liabilities, and net worth as well as business interests, financial connections and relatives in government.   Read more »

Limited access to gov't officials' SALNs alarms FOI law advocates

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 16 11:09 PM

Advocates of freedom of information in the Philippines sound the alarm over the government's move to restrict public access to the Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (SALN) of government officials. Read more »

STATEMENT OF ABS-CBN News

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 15 03:11 PM

ABS-CBN News is one with our fellow journalists in upholding the freedom of the press and the freedom of speech in the country.  Read more »

Quarantine curbs access to information

Karol Ilagan, Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
Posted at Jun 05 10:38 PM

Is freedom of information one of the casualties of Covid-19? Read more »