FOI Scotland

I sat in on an online meeting of FOI advocates in Scotland last Wednesday (SPIF*). It will certainly inform our product development.  Public Disclosure Will this become encouraged or even mandated. Private classes of requests such as SARs and sensitive FOI...

Information Governance for Cautions Lists

How do you manage privacy and security for what is essentially a database mostly containing violent people. In many public and private sector operators, it has to be available to several hundred – probably over a thousand – field staff. Only then can your...

Public Disclosure Log

Once FOI (SA) and EIRs are logged (though not SARs and private or sensitive requests), they should be presented on a public website. The main reason for this requirement is transparency. Public authorities differ on whether they must do this and if so, what should be...