With Freedom of Information, it can sometimes be worth following up your FOI story with another FOI. Earlier this year, the Mirror asked how much Liz Truss' distinctive higgledy-piggledy lectern…
Journalists and businesses are usually the target for complaints about the misuse of the Act when public bodies are feeling under pressure from lots of FOI requests. Apparently, we can…
Persistence can really pay off with FOI. If the first response is a less than convincing refusal (or just complete silence), and you think there's something there, it may be…
Some public bodies may need to give their FOI autoresponder an update (some with non-compliant nonsense about round robins and mandatory online forms definitely do). Ten councils responded to requests…
FOI is great, it gives you access to unpublished information. However, that information can be incomplete, unclear, limited, or just rubbish. Last week's story about five year waits for diagnostic…
Public body got something new and shiny (and possibly unnecessary), maybe a crime-fighting Tuk Tuk or a oddly shaped lectern? Maybe it's a good time to put in an FOI…
One theme for this week is looking at FOI requests that take other major stories in a new direction. For example, what has happened to the Ukrainian refugees offered homes…