Halton Hills - Civic Centre: The Halton Herald reopened the issue of fair and unbiased dissemination practices of the town's public media released information with the Town of Halton Hills new CAO, Dennis Perlin.

Mr. Perlin checked into the issue and informed The Halton Herald administrator, Al Kirouac, that during ex-CAO Bob Austin's reign, council had adopted a resolution that directed staff to exclude The Halton Herald from receiving any further public released media information from the various Town departments to specific news Medias, while excluding others who have been requesting the information formally since April 2005.

Mr. Perlin, who is also a Lawyer, readdressed the practices of staff and has since directed that ALL media releases emanating from the Corporation itself, or any Departments of the Corporation, including Fire, be posted to the Town's Website Home Page under "Press Releases-News at the Town" as soon as they are released.

Mr. Perlin has also had the  issue of fair and unbiased dissemination practices recently brought up at the November 28 council meeting in an in-camera session, were council was given legal advise with regards to its resolution and mandated practices. Upon receipt of 'that' legal advice, Council deferred consideration of The Herald's request to receive the information in conjunction and concurrent with other media's who are currently receiving the public information from town. Council has deferred its decision until meeting on Dec.12th, to allow them time to reflect on the advice received.

The Halton Herald.ca contends; releasing the information to other newsgroups while excluding the Herald, puts the Herald newsgroup at a disadvantage which could be construed as an attempt to deliberately engage in practices to injure and disadvantage our news publication. Herald administrator's have filed an FOI application with the Town to disclose who was/is behind the mandate to infringe upon our Charter of Rights, guaranteed under the constitution.