Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 10/3/2023 – #FOIFriday
The main idea behind FOI Friday is to highlight good uses of the Freedom of Information Act in the news - to highlight issues, find out new information, and tell…
Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 3/3/2023 – #FOIFriday
Important information to start this week: WhatsApp messages sent by public officials in the course of the work for public bodies are subject to the FOI Act. Despite what Isabel…
Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 24/2/2023 – #FOIFriday
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…
Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 17/2/2023 – #FOIFriday
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…
Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 10/2/2023 – #FOIFriday
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…
Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 3/2/2023 – #FOIFriday
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…
Freedom of Information in the news – week ending 27/1/2023 – #FOIFriday
FOI is great, it gives you access to unpublished information.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…