Investigation · Newcastle Fund · Freedom of Information FOI requests reveal that Newcastle City Council disbursed public money to The Recruitment Junction for an ex-offender employment programme, yet maintains it…
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By Kieron JH, Founder, The Reasonable Adjustment Short version: A new internal review response from the North East Combined Authority confirms that every FOI request is circulated to the Mayor’s…
“Do as I say, not as I do” – The Information Commissioner? FOI / Information Rights / Accountability The ICO Can’t Search Its Own Systems – But Expects Everyone Else…
Can UK Police Verify a Medical Cannabis Prescription? A Home Office FOI Reveals They Don’t Know Either FOI / Medical Cannabis / Accountability Can UK Police Verify a Medical Cannabis…
FOI Investigation · Speed Enforcement A Freedom of Information request to West Yorkshire Police has produced one of the most detailed public datasets on UK speed enforcement ever released. The…
Author: Kieron JH, Founder, The Reasonable Adjustment FOI reference: DVLA FOIR13019 You can read the full FOI WhatDoTheyKnow thread here: Medical fitness to drive decisions – prescribed cannabis and CBPM…
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…
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…