தகவல் உரிமைOne question, nine jurisdictions
Every state audited here has a statutory channel through which a member of the public may ask what it holds. The same single question is put through each of them. A refusal is an answer. A non-answer, recorded and dated, is also an answer — and it is the one this tracker is built to preserve.
The question
In respect of assets frozen or forfeited under counter-terrorist-financing powers in connection with the LTTE, does your department hold or publish a record of the final disposition of those assets — including any sum returned to any natural person — and if so, where is that record published?
It is deliberately narrow. It asks about the existence and location of a record, not about any individual, any account, or any operational matter. A department that holds nothing can say so in one line, and that line is itself the finding this organ exists to publish.
The channels
Freedom of Information Act 2000 request to HM Treasury / Home Office; Environmental Information Regs not applicable.
Access to Information Act request to Public Safety Canada / RCMP.
CADA (Commission d'accès aux documents administratifs) request.
Federal Act on Freedom of Information in the Administration (BGÖ) request.
Wet open overheid (Woo) request.
Informationsfreiheitsgesetz (IFG) request.
Offentleglova request.
Freedom of Information Act 1982 request to DFAT / AFP.
Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. §552) request to DOJ / Treasury OFAC.
Status is recorded as one of: awaiting response · substantive answer · nil-holding answer · refusal with exemption cited · no response within the statutory period. Nothing is characterised as evasion. The status is the status.
Why silence is data
A single unanswered request is an administrative fact. Nine of them, filed identically through nine statutory regimes and logged with their dates and reference numbers, is a dataset about how a regime behaves when it is asked the one question it was not designed to answer.
The dataset proves itself. It does not require anyone to believe TLTE about anything — each row can be reproduced by any reader with the same statute and the same question.
- — Question published in full so any person or newsroom can file it independently.
- — Channel per jurisdiction listed with the governing statute.
- — Status recorded neutrally; no characterisation of intent.
- — Live tracker with reference numbers, statutory deadlines, and full response texts published verbatim.
- — Internal-review and appeal stages logged where a refusal is made.
- — Comparative reading published as a methodology note before any conclusions are drawn.