Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 18/10/2024 – #FOIFriday
You're too late to get your Halloween FOI requests, but now might be a good time for a Christmas FOI request. Has your local council got a star-studded* Christmas lights…
Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 11/10/2024 – #FOIFriday
Slow responses, extremely unhelpful refusals, the almost entirely blanked out documents, dragged out battles over information that turns out to just not be that incendiary. It's nice to know it's…
Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 4/10/2024 – #FOIFriday
I think it might be spooky season (I am not sad about this. How early is too early to get the Halloween decorations out?). And apparently we're all asking about…
More datasets you can use now instead of sending an FOI
I love a Freedom of Information request. I also love not sending an FOI request. As a data journalist, sometimes it's easier to go digging through published data for the…
Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 27/9/2024 – #FOIFriday
This one feels a bit like a local FOI request greatest hits! We've got speeding, dog mess, bad cyclists, and stolen cars... Zombie knives From Tuesday (September 24), it became…
Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 20/9/2024 – #FOIFriday
Want another blog about FOI (I'm guessing yes, if you're here). George Greenwood, an investigative reporter at The Times, has just launched the brilliantly named Relight my FOIA blog. It…
Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 13/9/2024 – #FOIFriday
I know I bang on about not sending FOI requests when you don't have to (here's some datasets you could go grab instead), but sometimes you might need the FOI…