by Rick Marengo | Oct 2, 2022 | Uncategorised
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...
by Rick Marengo | Aug 31, 2022 | Uncategorised
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...
by Rick Marengo | Aug 25, 2022 | Audit, Data Retention Policy, FOI, FOI Public Disclosure Log, Reviews and Appeals, SAR
AXLR8 have clients with many years of data in their systems and so have provided tools to clean up their data manually. However, the job has become too large and the volume of information requests and SARs has risen to a point where an automated tool is justified....
by Rick Marengo | Aug 3, 2022 | FOI, FOI 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...
by Rick Marengo | Aug 3, 2022 | Audit, FOI, SAR
We are always interested to see where we can improve efficiency. We often ask why a process takes longer than we expect. In the case of an internal or external audit, the first thing we ask is what was done when and by whom? Audit Trail shows IR change history for any...
