Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 6/12/2024 – #FOIFriday
Nobody fights a three-year FOI battle for the clicks. A couple of weeks ago, FOI Friday covered the Romford Recorder's battle to get a report into a dossier of racism…
Nobody fights a three-year FOI battle for the clicks. A couple of weeks ago, FOI Friday covered the Romford Recorder's battle to get a report into a dossier of racism…
Don't make FOI officers dig through your cat memes to get to the information related to the FOI request. Speaking at Holyrood’s Freedom of Information 2024 event at Verity House…
Good news, the Harry Kane statue has finally found a home. After five years in storage, it was unveiled by the player himself in Waltham Forest this week. FOI plays…
FOI question of the week via Tim Turner: is information about a cupboard personal data? Background: The Sunday Times, back in 2022, reported on a custom built wardrobe placed in…
Scottish public bodies have been warned not to take court action they are likely to lose...advice that would probably apply to public bodies nationally. The Scottish Information Commissioner David Hamilton…
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…
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…