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Pres­i­dent of the Route 2 Maxi Taxi As­so­ci­a­tion, Bren­ton Knights, has ac­cused the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al of fail­ing to com­ply with the le­gal time­lines un­der the Free­dom of In­for­ma­tion Act (FOIA) af­ter sub­mit­ting re­quests for in­for­ma­tion re­lat­ed to mat­ters af­fect­ing the maxi taxi sec­tor.

Knights said the as­so­ci­a­tion sub­mit­ted sev­er­al re­quests un­der the Act to the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al and the for­mer Min­istry of Works and Trans­port, now split in­to the Min­istry of Works and In­fra­struc­ture and the Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion, but has yet to re­ceive for­mal re­spons­es de­spite the statu­to­ry dead­line hav­ing passed.

Ac­cord­ing to Knights, the law pro­vides a 30-day win­dow for pub­lic au­thor­i­ties to re­spond to FOIA re­quests by ei­ther pro­vid­ing the in­for­ma­tion, deny­ing the re­quest un­der spe­cif­ic ex­emp­tions or re­quest­ing an ex­ten­sion from the ap­pli­cant.