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[RELEASED] Expanding the Sunshine Act, APC Draft - Omega - 04-05-2017

Fellow members, I wish to present the following amendment for your feedback. This would amend the Sunshine Act.

Sunshine Act Wrote:1. Publishing of Cabinet Discussion

(1) The discussions of the Cabinet, and all Cabinet Ministries, shall be released every 8 months for public archival accessible to all members of The South Pacific.

(2) The Cabinet may elect not to release threads, or parts of threads, that address ongoing issues, or threaten regional security. These threads must be released as soon as reasonably possible and appropriate.

(3) The Cabinet shall regularly update the classification status of its discussions and not abuse the classification system to prevent its discussions from being published.

(4) The Cabinet may publish its discussions at earlier intervals at its discretion or if it has been petitioned to do so by a member legislator.

2. Failure to Publish Cabinet Discussions

(1) The Cabinet may refuse to publish a discussion that has been petitioned by a member.
a. The reasons for which as well as the discussions in questions must be made available to the High Court.
b. The High Court may overturn the Cabinet refusal to publish a discussion.

(2) In the event that Cabinet discussions older than 8 months have failed to be published, the current Cabinet must publish those discussions in a speedy manner.

32. Publishing of High Court Proceedings

(1) The private discussions of the High Court, pertaining to a case, shall be made public after the period for an appeal has passed without an appeal being filed.

(2) Should an appeal be filed, private discussions pertaining to the case shall be withheld until after a ruling has been announced.

3. Publishing of Council of Regional Security Discussions


(1) The discussions of the Council shall be released every 8 months for public archival accessible to all members of The South Pacific.

(2) The Council may elect not to release threads, or parts of threads, that address ongoing issues, or threaten regional security. These threads must be released as soon as reasonably possible and appropriate.

(3) The Council shall regularly update the classification status of its discussions.

(4) The Council may publish its discussions at earlier intervals at its discretion or if it has been petitioned to do so by a legislator


4. Publishing of Local Council Discussions

(1) The discussions of the Council shall be released every 8 months for public archival accessible to all members of The South Pacific.

(2) The Council may elect not to release threads, or parts of threads, that address ongoing issues, or threaten regional security. These threads must be released as soon as reasonably possible and appropriate.

(3) The Council shall regularly update the classification status of its discussions.

(4) The Council may publish its discussions at earlier intervals at its discretion or if it has been petitioned to do so by a legislator.


5. Failure to Publish Organization’s Discussions

(1) A government organization may refuse to publish a discussion that has been petitioned by a legislator.
a. The reasons for which, as well as the discussions in questions, must be made available to the High Court.
b. The High Court may overturn an organization’s refusal to publish a discussion.

(2) In the event that an organization’s discussions older than 8 months have failed to be published, the current members of said organization must publish those discussions in a speedy manner.



RE: Proposal for the Party - Griffindor - 04-05-2017

I agree to this, I would maybe like to see the LC be released every term, and I'm not sure that we need to have a sensitive information part of the LC either. How would we feel about adding parties to this aft? I mean, we already do this, but just to standardize it.


RE: Proposal for the Party - Omega - 04-05-2017

I think adding parties should be something added to the Political Parties Act. I also believe it is fine for the LC to release every 8 months like everyone else.


RE: Proposal for the Party - Griffindor - 04-05-2017

Haha I forgot about the Party act for a second. I think that we could simply condense it to all government entities, must do this, because otherwise it's simply a copy paste.


RE: Proposal for the Party - Omega - 04-05-2017

Yeah I don't think that's feasible right now. That would include the MoRA, MoFA and SPSF which would be a huge undertaking.


RE: Proposal for the Party - Griffindor - 04-05-2017

Well, not really.. The only thing that would happen is that the agency would provide links to areas that we can't see.


RE: Proposal for the Party - Lavoret - 04-05-2017

I agree with the draft, and I agree that the other ministries should publish their threads.


RE: Proposal for the Party - Omega - 04-05-2017

Okay so the purpose of this was to get the CRS stuff so yeah


RE: Proposal for the Party - Griffindor - 04-06-2017

In any case, I agree with it. I would like to see what our other members have to say about it, especially Sam, since he is on the CRS.


RE: Proposal for the Party - Omega - 04-14-2017

I would like to ask the party vote on if I would have formal support if I were to propose this.