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Re Request For Copy of 2008 Statement of Assets Liabilities and Networth Saln and Personal Data Sheet Orcurriculum Vitae of The Justices of The Su

The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism requested copies of the 2008 Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (SALN) and Personal Data Sheet or Curriculum Vitae of Supreme Court Justices and other judiciary employees. The Supreme Court committee reviewed the request and recommended creating a new committee to handle such requests. While several similar requests were filed, the Supreme Court ruled that SALNs can be accessed through the right to information, subject to certain limitations like national security, trade secrets, and confidential information.

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Re Request For Copy of 2008 Statement of Assets Liabilities and Networth Saln and Personal Data Sheet Orcurriculum Vitae of The Justices of The Su

The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism requested copies of the 2008 Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (SALN) and Personal Data Sheet or Curriculum Vitae of Supreme Court Justices and other judiciary employees. The Supreme Court committee reviewed the request and recommended creating a new committee to handle such requests. While several similar requests were filed, the Supreme Court ruled that SALNs can be accessed through the right to information, subject to certain limitations like national security, trade secrets, and confidential information.

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REQUEST FOR COPY OF 2008 STATEMENT OF ASSETS,

LIABILITIES AND NETWORTH [SALN] AND PERSONAL DATA


SHEET ORCURRICULUM VITAE OF THE JUSTICES OF THE
SUPREME COURT AND OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE
JUDICIARY.
A. M. No. 09-8-6-SC, June 13, 2012

Facts:

Rowena Paraan, Research Director of the Philippine Center for Investigative


Journalism (PCIJ) and Karol Ilagan, a researcher-writer also of the PCIJ
sought for copies of the Statement of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth
(SALN) and the Personal Data Sheet or the Curriculum Vitae of its Justices
of the Supreme Court for the year 2008 for the purpose of updating their
database of information on government officials to the Court. The special
committee created by the Supreme Court chaired by then Associate Justice
Minita V. Chico-Nazario to review the request issued a Memorandum
recommending the creation of a Committee on Public Disclosure to take
over the functions of the Office of the Court Administrator (OCA) with
respect to requests for copies of SALN and other personal documents o0f
members of the Judiciary. Meanwhile, several requests for copies of the
documents that were asked were files.

Issue:

Whether or not SALN of justices be accessed via the right to information?

Rulings:
Yes. SALN of justices can be accessed through the right to information.
Under Sec. 7, Art. Ill: “The right of the people to information on matters of
public concern shall be recognized. Access to official records, and to
documents and papers pertaining to official acts, transactions, or decisions,
as well as to government research data used as basis for policy development
shall be afforded the citizen, subject to such limitations as may be provided
by law. “
The right to information goes hand-in-hand with the constitutional policies
of full public disclosure and honesty in the public service

Limitations:
The right to information is not absolute. It is further subject to such
limitations as may be provided by law. Jurisprudence has provided the
following limitations to that right:(1) national security matters and
intelligence information;(2) trade secrets and banking transactions;(3)
criminal matters; and(4) other confidential information such as confidential
or classified information officially known to public officers and employees by
reason of their office and not made available to the public as well as
diplomatic correspondence, closed door Cabinet meetings and executive
sessions of either house of Congress, and the internal deliberations of the
Supreme Court.

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