Annual Report on the Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act 2009-10

Reported Disclosure Activity

Section 38.1 of the Act requires each chief executive to prepare and submit to OCHRO, within 60 days after the end of every fiscal year, a report on the activities related to disclosures made to the Senior Officer or supervisors in his or her organization. The following is a summary of those reports.

Disclosure Activity	Reported Numbers
Number of active organizations	155
Number of general inquiries relating to the Act Number of organizations that reported inquiries	281 29
Number of disclosures received according to the Act Number of organizations that reported disclosures	213 32
Number of referrals resulting from a disclosure made in another public sector organization	4
Number of cases carried over based on disclosures made in 2008–09	31
Total number of disclosures handled in 2009–10 (new disclosures plus cases carried over and referrals)	248
Number of disclosures received that were acted upon	218
Number of disclosures received that were not acted upon	30
Number of investigations commenced as a result of disclosures received	75
Number of disclosures received that led to a finding of wrongdoing Number of organizations that reported findings of wrongdoing	7 4
Number of disclosures received that led to corrective measures Number of organizations that reported corrective measures	36 14
Number of organizations that reported finding systemic problems that gave rise to wrongdoing	4

In accordance with paragraph 11(1)(c) of the Act, it is the responsibility of each organization to provide public access to information describing findings of wrongdoing and any follow-up action taken. This information is not collected and repeated in this report.

Statistics on organizational reports of activities related to disclosures made under the Act are available in the Appendix.