Disclosure Logs
FOI Man explains why he’s a convert to Disclosure Logs One of the suggestions in my evidence to the Justice Select Committee is that consideration be given to making disclosure logs mandatory for large public …
FOI Man talks!
At the end of last week I was interviewed for a podcast produced by the journalism.co.uk website. You can hear me talking about FOI and the Save FOI Campaign. There’s also a great piece on …
Submissions to the Post-Legislative Scrutiny
FOI Man highlights a useful new resource available via the Save FOI Campaign website If you want to dip into the submissions made to the Justice Select Committee’s post-legislative scrutiny of FOI, a useful resource …
Why 2012 is the year to Save FOI
Today (Monday 20th February), a group of us are formally launching a new campaign. As the title of this post suggests, we are campaigning to #saveFOI. This week sees the beginning of the long heralded …
Is Michael Gove’s email held by DfE?
FOI Man considers whether an email from the Secretary of State for Education to several colleagues is held by the DfE for the purposes of FOI. In the Autumn of last year, Chris Cook, the …
Why promptly might not be as prompt as all that
FOI Man explains why responses to even the simplest FOI requests may take a little while to reach you The length of time that it takes public authorities to answer an FOI request is one …