The Information Commissioner’s Office appears to have been considering ways to reduce the pressure Freedom of Information requests place on public authorities and on the ICO itself. A disclosure reported…
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FOI / Records Governance Councils can keep education and SEND records for decades. Once you start asking how those decisions are documented, explained and disclosed, the picture gets a lot…
By Kieron JH When you spot a pothole, you’ve got seconds. You’re moving, you’re navigating traffic, and you’re not in a position to fill out forms. HotPot is designed around…
FOI Daily recently published a LinkedIn post about the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and “real name” FOI requests, using my requests as Jamie Halliday as the example: MoJ FOI “real…
Published by: The Reasonable Adjustment This started with a Discord ticket. When The Reasonable Adjustment was new, I asked the staff of r/ukmedicalcannabis, one of the largest UK patient communities…
By Kieron JH If you’ve ever had an FOI bounced with “section 12, exceeds the appropriate limit”, you’ve seen the trick. The refusal is framed as maths. It’s often just…
By Kieron JH, Founder, The Reasonable Adjustment Sources If you submit a lot of FOI requests in England, you eventually meet the same boogeyman: “vexatious”. Not because you’re doing anything…
By Kieron JH, Founder, The Reasonable Adjustment There are loads of PDF redaction tools available. Some are great for a one-off manual job. Many are expensive. A lot push you…
The Labour Party has finally admitted that it is months late responding to a Data Subject Access Request (DSAR) it received in September 2025. After a long period of silence,…
Freedom of Information requests are not a side hobby at The Reasonable Adjustment, they are a core part of how we do public interest work. Used properly, FOI lets you…