We asked 30 questions. 20 got no reply.

We asked public offices 30 questions on the record. 20 got no reply by our deadline. Windsor Police: 5 of 6. City of Windsor: 5 of 7. Essex-Windsor EMS: 4 of 4. Every question and outcome is on our scoreboard.

By Kyle L. Stewart | Published Oct. 27, 2026, 5:08 p.m. ET | Windsor, Ontario

Topics: Health Public safety

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Windsor News sends questions on the record to public offices before we publish, with a date we would like a reply by. Our new Asked and answered scoreboard counts how each office responded. As of Oct. 27, 2026, it scores 30 questions.

The score

Answered: 2

Replied, but not every question answered: 5

Acknowledged only: 2

Told us to file a freedom-of-information request: 1

No reply by our deadline: 20

By office

Windsor Police Service: 6 questions. No reply by our deadline on 5. The service answered one, about paying freedom-of-information fees, in 4 days.

City of Windsor: 7 questions. No reply by our deadline on 5. One reply, about budget item 2026-0097, came 22 days after we asked and left some questions open. One question was referred to the FOI process.

County of Essex and Essex-Windsor EMS: 4 questions, no reply by our deadline on any.

City of Windsor, Mayor's Office: 2 questions, no reply by our deadline on either.

Windsor Police Service Board: 1 question, no reply by our deadline.

Hôtel-Dieu Grace Healthcare: 1 question, answered in full in 2 days.

Windsor-Essex County Health Unit: 2 questions, both answered in part.

How we score

One question sent to several offices counts once for each office. An automatic reply counts as no reply. Our deadlines are reply dates we ask for, not legal deadlines; freedom-of-information requests run on legal clocks and are listed separately. We score public institutions only, not campaigns, candidates, companies or unions. The scoreboard links every question to its row in our public questions tracker and is updated as answers arrive.

Each office on the scoreboard was sent the original questions on the record, with a reply date, before its outcome was recorded. A reply that arrives now will be added to the scoreboard.