I'm aware it's not Friday today, so this is another slightly delayed FOI Friday. But it's another week with some good repeatable Freedom of Information ideas, including thinking about the…
This bank holiday weekend would be a bad time to submit FOI requests (they're non-working days so don't count in the 20 working day time calculation. However, if you do…
Does it matter if the response to your freedom of information request might be confusing? Last week we covered the problem of unhelpful responses being sent out that then turn…
FOI ideas this week look at high turnover in children's social care, police using force on teens, prison contraband, and the rise of cryptocurrency crime. Struggling social care The council…
If you regularly send Freedom of Information requests for stories, you may have experienced something like this. You make your request, start writing your story, but when you go to…
You can make Freedom of Information requests about pretty much anything. That's the whole point. It allows anyone to ask about anything from any public body (doesn't mean they hold…
Public bodies that don't answer Freedom of Information requests on time are under scrutiny. The ICO, this week, issued an official 'enforcement notice' to Shropshire Council for failing to answer…