Practically speaking, Part I – Deadlines
FOIMan brings you the first in a series of articles about the practical implications of FOI. This year I’ve been writing a series of articles about the practical implications of FOI in PDP’s Freedom of …
Records Management, FOI and Email – a podcast
FOIMan brings you a recent podcast from the Information & Records Management Society on private email accounts, FOI and records management. As indicated in my last post, my usual long, considered (possibly verbose) blog posts …
FOIMan to take flight in 2014
FOIMan explains why things have been a little quiet here of late, and why that’s about to change… The more observant amongst you will have noticed that I haven’t been blogging very often of late. …
Archives and Copyright
FOI Man reports on a symposium looking at how copyright impacts archivists wanting to digitise their holdings. A symposium hosted by the Wellcome Trust yesterday looked at the difficulties faced by archivists who want to …
FOI requires guts not restrictions
FOI Man thinks senior public employees and their political masters need more guts to make the right decisions, not more restrictions to prevent them from having to. Civil Service World brings us the thoughts of …
Guest post: FOI Appeals – The Burden of Proof
FOI Man brings you a guest post from Dr Joe Reddington, a researcher at Royal Holloway, University of London, who asks where the burden of proof should lie when regulators consider appeals under FOI or …