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…
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…
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…
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…
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…