New body covered by Freedom of Information just dropped. On Sunday (May 25) South Western Railway (SWR) became the first train services to transfer back into public control under new…

A quick detour to Freedom of Information in the US (although I think it reflects a pretty common attitude towards FOI). November 2024: Elon Musk posted on social media, “There…

I was at the BBC Shared Data Unit's conference earlier this week talking about Freedom of Information. And the thing that kept coming up was late requests (so late they…

You know how the Scottish Information Commissioner told public bodies not to take Freedom of Information Act court action they are likely to lose? The Scottish Government has decided to…

How not to handle a Freedom of Information request... A GP surgery has been criticised for putting up signage blaming a Freedom of Information (FOI) request for delays in the…

Freedom of Information is political. And not just in the sense that opposition parties are using it on a weekly basis in Scotland (see below). In the US, among other…

A lot of Freedom of Information requests are about local issues. So this week that includes the cost of parking permits, vandalism to school signs, dead game birds and alternative…