Reports, personal addresses, maps of the area: The fact that confidential documents from the Zurich court system fell into the hands of the environment is explosive. The way it happened is just outrageous. Equally scandalous, however, is how the Justice Department, under SP government adviser Jacqueline Fehr, is handling the data scandal.
Instead of informing, as of 2020, the authorities prefer to remain silent and hope that the scandal never becomes public. When this happened, she didn’t create transparency, she ruined it. “Your presentation of the facts is incorrect and does not correspond to reality,” the director of Blik was the first to write.
It turned out that this is not true. Even members of the audit commission of the cantonal council are surprised by the extent of the leak. Although, according to the Department of Justice, they should have been informed about this case “in detail.”
Judging by the facts and figures, the authorities themselves do not take this too seriously. Fehr’s office did not say a word to the public that there had been an external investigation into the leak. She substantiates this by the ongoing criminal proceedings. But this is no reason not to provide at least broad information – as is now happening under pressure from the media. Two years late and still unfinished.
Transparency is not just the expectations of citizens from the authorities. But their legal obligation.
Leah Hartmann
Source: Blick
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