Letter to David Solomon Page 12:

Some Office of the Information Commissioner, Queensland, (Infocomm) policies and practices seem to facilitate workplace abuse.

Infocomm officers demand that you prove that a document exists before they will search for it.

But under FOI I have found -

• huge numbers of falsified 'records' that have been secretly placed on my Queensland Department of Education files to my disadvantage.
• many references to 'lost' investigation reports.
• and my own documents have been extensively falsified.

In an environment of this nature - where my documents have been so very extensively falsified over such a long period of time - asking me to 'prove' the existence of documents is ridiculous.

Infocomm officers need to appreciate that teachers who have been abused at work - and recent UNE research suggests that as many as 99% of teachers are bullied at work - are not dealing with reality, logic or facts.

They are dealing with extensively falsified 'official records'.

Anything is possible.

You may not discover a reference to a lost / missing / falsified document for several years.

Then an FOI is released which makes reference to the earlier document.

When you apply to the Office of the Information Commissioner for a copy of this lost / missing / falsified document, Infocomm officers refuse to search for it because they have already closed down their external review for the period of time during which the lost / missing / falsified document seems to have been created.

• You should be able to ask for a document, the existence of which has been concealed from you, even if you do not find evidence of the existence of the document till after the external review for that period of time has been declared closed.

Infocomm officers "authorise" Queensland Department of Education FOI officers to release documents to you.

They refuse to send the documents to you themselves.

These are documents that the Department of Education FOI officers have refused to release to you at least twice previously.

Infocomm officers advise you to contact the Department of Education FOI officers and apply to them for the documents again. But the documents that the Department of Education FOI officers eventually send to you may not be the same as the documents that the Infocomm officers have 'authorised' them to release to you.

This seems to be an organised 'cop-out' strategy by Infocomm Officers. They do not seem to want to be responsible for 'knowing' that the right documents are not being released to you.

When you point out that the documents released to you have been falsified, Infocomm and the Department of Education officers then enter into long and improbable explanations to each other and to you of how these changes came about.

This all seems to be an absolute waste of time.

And it facilitates the endless falsification of your FOI documents.

• The Office of the Information Commissioner Queensland should release documents directly to applicants.

Comments

[Janet]

Love how you mention the independent advisor _ In my case the independent advisor, sent by a department that kept telling me that their hands were tied, was the person doing the bullying. He could make lots of misleading comments but i could say nothing due to Code of Conduct.