Control of politicians
— #16 Saving information in the public electronic diary
Politicians and other public officials should record emails and other electronic or written communication. However, they should not publish those records, but only save them so that they are available, if necessary, to criminal law enforcement authorities.
If the materials underlying the information published in the electronic public diary were archived, they could serve both as a basis for accuracy check and protection of the politician. Keeping public electronic diary and maintaining the underlying documents could be one of the conditions for immunity.
Sources:
- OECD: The 10 Principles for Transparency and Integrity in Lobbying, 2013
- Conclusions of the expert tables on lobbying, Respect Institute - Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Science of the Czech Republic - Lenka Andrýsová, 2011, p. 8
- Vondráček, O., Havrda, M., 21 recipes – Anti-corruption cookbook, Recipe 2: Monitoring of lobbied politicians through public electronic diary, December 2013
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