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-- [ From: Mark Olson * EMC.Ver #3.0 ] --


Frank et al:

The site must have just come up again in the last few hours; access was
prevented up until just this morning.

Not having looked at it before the outage, I can't tell if anything has
changed.  Can anyone else comment?

Mark Olson

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Date: Tuesday, 16-Mar-99 01:16 PM

From: Frank Mayhood            \ Internet:
(fmayhood@city.kamloops.bc.ca)
To:   CIPS-L@hermes.csd.unb.ca \ Internet:    (cips-l@hermes.csd.unb.ca)

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Subject: Re: How NOT to Use the Internet to Bolster Public Confidence

As the manager of a City IT department I would really like to understand
this thread. I just went to the sight, searched for my old residence by
address, and got back the information in a blink of an eye. A similar
site at the City of Victoria generated a recent ruling by the BC Freedom
of Information Commissioner restricting the type of searches that could
be provided, but the Calgary site complies with this ruling. It actually
provides less information than would be allowed in BC.

So what is the issue?

--
Frank F.R. Mayhood
Information Technology Manager  Ph. (250)828-3441
City of Kamloops   Fax (250)828-3578
E-mail: fmayhood@city.kamloops.bc.ca

Bill Ross wrote:

> It may be that the city wants to control the ability of people to make
> copies of the information, and exposing it on a web site would make
that
> control difficult. I believe that in Toronto access to property and
related
> information is a revenue generator.
>
> I guess they should have thought of that before jumping on the web
> bandwagon.
>
> Bill Ross
>
> Tom Ruta <rutat@cadvision.com> on 03/16/99 08:19:37 AM
>
> Please respond to CIPS General Discussion List <CIPS-
L@LISTSERV.UNB.CA>
>
> To:   CIPS-L@LISTSERV.UNB.CA
> cc:    (bcc: Bill Ross/CTAL/CTC)
> Subject:  Re: How NOT to Use the Internet to Bolster Public Confidence
>
> "Olson, Mark" <olsonm@cadvision.com> wrote:
> ...
> >I am suspicious that technology is being used as the scapegoat here.
As
> >Tom noted, popularity is not a logical reason so shut down a site.
> >
> Bingo!
> >I suspect that either privacy issues came up (my understanding was
that
> >you could look up the assessment of any property in the city),
> That information (AVAILABILITY MANDATORY BY LAW - Municipal
> Government Act RSA 1995) is available at the rolls in the
> city hall and selected areas around town.  Concerns over
> privacy resulted in the reduction of available info from the
> paper rolls, so that can't be it.
> > or the
> >information available was causing more problems for the assessment
folks
> >than it solved.
> >
> Man... you are spot on today!  Make it easy to get
> information and people might actually ask intelligent
> questions.
> >However, I will be the first to admit that this is uninformed
> >speculation on my part.  Anyone out there with some more solid
> >information they could share?
> >
> Well, the City of Calgary and my Alderman don't have an
> answer.
> Tom
>
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