Practice question
A Filipino requests a government contract from an executive department, supplies the required identifying details and describes the record. The office refuses orally, gives no legal exception and says the requester must prove a personal financial loss before any public-interest record may be considered. Which is best?
- The office must process the request under the applicable access procedure and cannot rely on these unsupported conditions
- Only government contractors may ask
- Every request requires proof of damages
- An oral unexplained refusal always satisfies EO 2
- The department head owns the contract personally
Legal references
- 1987 Constitution, Article III, Sections 6, 7 and 8; Article IX-B, Section 2(5): https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
- Executive Order No. 2, July 23, 2016, Sections 2-6 and 9-13: https://lawphil.net/executive/execord/eo2016/eo_2_2016.html
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