Addressed to Information Minister Dr Dana Morris Dixon, the letter follows a Policy Roundtable convened in June 2026, where civil society organisations, drawing on independent monitoring and the Government’s reporting under the Open Government Partnership (OGP), examined the state of reform of the Access to Information Act and, what they say, is the urgent need for its modernisation.

Signatories include Jamaican’s for Justice, Fi We Children Foundation (FWCF), Freedom Imaginaries, and Jamaica Accountability Meter Portal (JAMP).

Noting that Section 38 of the ATI Act requires periodic review by a committee of both Houses of Parliament, the letter highlighted that the Act, last reviewed by a Joint Select Committee in 2011, has never been substantively amended.