Exempted material include:

• Documents that are currently classified in the interest of national security, defence, foreign policy or international relations.
  
• Cabinet Documents including Cabinet Submissions, Notes and Cabinet Decisions.
  
• Investigative records compiled for law enforcement purposes which would interfere with enforcement proceedings, could endanger a person's life or safety, deprive a person to a right of fair trial, could disclose the identity of a confidential source, would disclose techniques for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions, could facilitate the escape of a person from lawful detention, could jeopardize the security of correctional facilities.
  
• Documents subject to legal privilege the disclosure of which would constitute a breach of confidence, be in contempt of court or infringe the privileges of Parliament.
  
• Documents affecting Jamaica's national economy including those relating to taxes, duties or rate, interest rates, monetary policy and exchange rate policy.
  
• Various forms of documents that are of a deliberative nature and reveal Government's deliberative process.
  
• Records containing trade secrets or commercial or financial information relating or persons or organizations.
  
• Documents relating to heritage sites, endangered plant and animal life where the disclosure could lead to the destruction, damage or interference of such sites or resources.
  
• Documents affecting personal privacy. These include personnel and medical records, the disclosure of which would constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.

Identify the document you wish to have access to and the government body most likely to have it.

Write/phone in/email or fax your request giving as much information as possible about the document in order to help the Officer assigned for those purposes to quickly retrieve it.

Include contact information which will allow the Officer responsible for ATI applications to remain in contact with you. This will assist the Officer in obtaining clarifications from you and enable the observance of the timeline (30 days from receipt of Application) prescribed for finding and granting access as the case may be.