Final Results for the Oct 2009 Cosa

[Capt. Sir Mick Preston]

Hear Ye, the following:

His Royal Highness King John, The Mençéi del Senäts, El Seneschál del Regipäts Talossán , Senätors, Members of the Cosâ , Citizens of the Realm, Immigrants, Visitors, and Guests:


Azul.

I present you with the Final Results of the 3rd Clark of the 40th Cosâ .

# 40RZ7 The Human Rights Day Act

Cosâ Vote: PËR: 165. Contra: 15 . AUS: 5 The Act PASSED the Cosâ.
Senäts Vote: PËR: 4. Contra: 3. AUS: 0 The Act PASSED the Senäts.

# 40RZ8 The Changing the Age Act

Cosâ Vote: PËR: 56 . Contra: 101 AUS: 23. The Act FAILED the Cosâ
Senäts Vote: PËR:1 . Contra: 6. AUS: 0. The Act FAILED the Senäts.

# 40RZ9 Freedom of Information and Privacy (Gov.) Act

Cosâ Vote: PËR: 146 . Contra: 29 AUS: 0. . The Act PASSED the Cosâ
Senäts Vote: PËR:4 . Contra: 3. AUS: 0. The Act PASSED the Senäts.

# 40RZ10 The Senate Reform II Amendment
Cosâ Vote: PËR: 176 . Contra: 9 AUS: 0. . The Act PASSED the Cosâ
Senäts Vote: PËR: 3 . Contra: 4. AUS: 0. The Act FAILED the Senäts.

The VOC PASSED 152-23.

The Resolutions read as thus:

[Capt. Sir Mick Preston]

# 40RZ7 The Human Rights Day Act

Whereas, the struggle to secure respect for human dignity and liberty continues since the start of the modern human rights movement with the promulgation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), and

Whereas, upon passage of the UDHR by the UN General Assembly on 10 December 1948, the United Nations declared December 10th to be World Human Rights Day, and

Whereas, Talossa, since its founding in 1979, has consistently been at the forefront of efforts to further respect for the rule of law, for individual liberty and for protection of and the freedom to actualize one's individual dignity, and

Whereas, Talossa, stands with our brothers and sisters of the human family who continue to struggle for the most basic of human rights, and for whom the principles expressed in the UDHR are both a beacon of hope and a call to action.


Therefore, be it resolved, that the Ziu of the Kingdom of Talossa, commit to the following action:

The Ziu hereby declares the 10th of December a new national holiday known as Human Rights Day.

A suggested method to celebrate Human Rights Day is reviewing Article XIX of The Organic Law and/or the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Uréu q'estadra så: Breneir Tzaracomprada (MC - PP)

[Capt. Sir Mick Preston]

# 40RZ9 Freedom of Information and Privacy (Gov.) Act

WHEREAS there has been a call for greater levels of transparency from the government and it's agencies, and

WHEREAS we should take measures to ensure this, and

WHEREAS this will probably be a sufficient enough measure to last the test of time without further measure ever being required, and

WHEREAS at the same time we should take measures to protect certain information from scrutiny for the sakes of privacy and security, now

THEREFORE be it resolved by the Ziu that the government of the Kingdom of Talossa has the duty and responsibility to make public information about and held by the government's cabinet ministries and sub offices within the guidelines set below,

SECTION 1: INFORMATION AVAILABLE FOR REQUEST
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(1) A citizen may only request access to information that has been recorded on paper, computer file, video file and/or audio file. Unrecorded opinion does not fall within the scope of this legislation.

(2) A citizen may request information regarding the business of the government's executive offices and the government's cabinet ministries so long as the information being requested does not conflict with SECTIONs 2, 4 or 5 of this act.

(3) Leaders of political parties may access some personal contact details as set out in SECTION 5 of this act.


SECTION 2: INFORMATION EXEMPT FROM REQUEST.
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The type of information not available for access is outlined as follows:

(1) Records that are of a personal nature where the disclosure of such records would clearly infringe a citizen's individual privacy in accordance with the Sixth Covenant of Article XIX (Covenant of Rights and Freedoms) of the 1997 Organic Law of the Kingdom of Talossa. This also includes private medical, counseling, or psychological records.

(2) Records of a law enforcement or military agency only when the records meet one or more of the following criteria:
(2.1) The records would identify informants or witnesses,
(2.2) The records would identify undercover officers,
(2.3) The records would provide personal information of officers or officer's family members,
(2.4) The records would provide details of current operations or protocol. This includes details of communication codes and plans of deployment.
(2.5) The records would endanger the life or safety of officers or officer's families if the information was disclosed.
(2.6) The records are of an ongoing investigation.

(3) Records that fall within the scope of medical practitioner - patient privilege, attorney - client privilege, religious figure privilege, or any and all current and future privilege recognized by Statutory Law, Organic Law or Cort Rule.

(4) Records of security measures and records that would hinder the body's ability to maintain the physical security of custodial or penal institutions occupied by persons arrested or convicted of a crime or admitted because of a mental disability.

(5) Conversation logs that may be regarded as private may also be excluded from the scope of this legislation.

NB: This list of exclusions may be amended by future Statutory Laws that may be passed as seen fit by the Ziu.


SECTION 3: BURDEN OF PROOF.
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(1) The burden of proof falls on the body that has been asked to disclose any and all requested information. The requester of the information does not have an obligation to provide an explanation for their request.

(2) If a request for information is denied by the body then an explanation as to why the request has been denied must be given.

(3) If a body fails to disclose requested information without a valid reason then the uppermost cort, or any other cort as set up by the Ziu, will reserve the right to force the body to disclose.

(4) The Corts will also arbitrate cases in which a requester feels a given reason was not sufficient enough to deny the request.

SECTION 4: DATA PROTECTION
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(1) Personal information such as, but not limited to, private mailing addresses, contact telephone numbers and private email addresses, given names, ages, date of births and national security numbers shall be held on file and shall only be accessed by the Secretary of State or The King without prior permission of the person to whom the information relates to. In all other instances permission must be obtained by the person to whom the personal information relates to.

(2) The type of information and records described in clause 1 above shall never be passed on to outside agencies for the purposes of data farming or market research. The details may be passed onto non-Talossan law enforcement agencies in the interest of international law enforcement and co-operation.

(3) Personal Information described in clause 1 above shall never be published on any public website belonging to the Kingdom as an asset.

SECTION 5: INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO POLITICAL PARTY LEADERS
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(1) An Electorate Database shall be made available to political party leaders.

(2) The Database shall only be accessible by leaders of parties which have been fully registered with the Chancery.

(3) The Database shall contain the following information on each of the Kingdom's Citizens only: Name, Province, E-Mail address.

(4) Measures shall be taken to ensure that the database is kept non-public and can only be viewed by the audience intended.

(5) Additional information may be held upon the database against any given person ONLY if that person requests such information to be included.

(6) Any citizen may request to opt-out of being included in this database for any reason at any time by notifying the database administrator.

and, FURTHERMORE the bill referenced 25RZ99 is hereby repealed due to the fact that the Freedom of Information sections above renders 25RZ99 unnecessary while adding a level of optional privacy to the same concept.

Uréu q'estadra sa

The Right Honourable Éovart Grischun (MC - PP, FGP)
El Túischac'h Flip Molinar (MC - FGP)
The Right Honourable Brad Holmes (Senator - Ataturk

[Capt. Sir Mick Preston]

Votes were not received from the following :

For the First time:

A. Likazar Bisquinc

Mataiwos Vurinalt


For the Second Time:

Eovart Caceir


Article VIII: Composition of the Cosâ, Section 4 of the Org Law stipulates:

"...An MC vacates his seats if he fails to vote on two consecutive Clarks, or if he resigns from office or dies."

Therefore, the seats held by Eovart Caceir are deemed to be vacant, and are returned to the their respective party .





Done by my hand in the name of King John and under his Royal Seal this 26th day of October in the year of salvation 2009, in the 2nd year of the reign of our gracious sovereign King John, and of the independence of Talossa the 30th.

Capt. Mick Preston, Secretár d’Estat

[Sir Alexandreu Davinescu]

S:reu SoS, "Changing the Age" failed both houses.

[Alèx Soleighlfred]

i hope next time i will be able to participate. ecxuse me everyone.

[Capt. Sir Mick Preston]

Article X: Passing Legislation sates:

Section 6. Every bill which shall have passed the Ziu shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to the King. The King may sign such a Bill, in which case it shall immediately become law; or he may veto the Bill, in which case it shall be returned, with his objections, to the Ziu, which shall proceed to reconsider it in the next Clark. If the King neither signs nor vetoes a Bill before the last day of the month in which it was passed by the Ziu, he shall be deemed to have signed it.

In that the last day of October has come and gone, I declare that this is true and correct, and said laws will be entered into the Laws of the Kingdom.






Done by my hand in the name of King John and under his Royal Seal this 11th day of November in the year of salvation 2009, in the 2nd year of the reign of our gracious sovereign King John, and of the independence of Talossa the 30th.

Capt. Mick Preston, Secretár d’Estat