Latest #openaddresses from local government:

Adur District Council and Worthing Borough Council, in the South East of England, have both released their Council Tax address lists as open data www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad... (with download links)

No UPRNs though

#FOI #UKhousing #opendata

Not saying you should send an #FOI with an eye on an eventual headline.

But if you're asking about the number of dog noise complaints across London, you have to be hoping Barking and Dagenham have had plenty.

Round robin #FOI requests give you the opportunity to build a picture of how public bodies' approaches differ.

Like how trading standards offices in Yorkshire & the Humber are seizing 10 times the number of cigarettes per resident, than their counterparts in London:

A letter published today confirms DCMS is going ahead with the review of ICO's culture and governance that Liz Kendall announced in July committees.parliament.uk/publications...

This follows from the business with John Edwards

ICO becomes the Information Commission on 30 Sep

#FOI #dataprotection

UK Parliament report: Procedure Committee proposes overhaul of the Written Parliamentary Questions system committees.parliament.uk/committee/12...

WPQs questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...

#FOI #opengov

Even if your #FOI request is refused you can still get a story out of it. Usually complaining about lack of transparency.

But these are also interesting to see how exemptions are applied and whether they might survive an internal review:

The first webinar is on 28 Sept, which is happily also International Right To Know Day! Register, for free, here: pretix.eu/mysociety/3r... #FOI #InternationalRightToKnowDay

We're running a series of three free webinars on Access To Information globally - looking at how campaigners are defending #FOI in their countries, how people are building new Right To Information platforms, and the role of regulators. Sign up for one or more sessions here: pretix.eu/mysociety/3r...

Changing #FOI law to make it harder to get information to hold your government accountable turns out to work quite well.

One department in Ontario has issued 48 refusals in just under two months. And if you can't refuse them, you can just ignore them...

Shameful. I’m having to fight taxpayer-funded lawyers (Clayton Utz) on the secrecy Govt is imposing on the expenditure of public money and the future of our nation’s steel making capabilities. A hearing will take place on 28 and 29 Oct. 2/2 #FOI #SaveTheDate #auspol

@albomp.bsky.social’s Govt is planning to spend >$1B on the Whyalla Steelworks👏, but is refusing to release details of its plan, in part because it would “cause concern to the Whyalla community”. I wonder how it could cause more concern than yesterday’s 500 job losses? 1/2 #FOI #auspol

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Once privileged, always privileged

Scottish courts say public interest test to publish legally privileged advice needs "clear, compelling" justification to override

Scottish Info Commissioner says departure from #FOI Act intent. On to Supreme Court.

H/t @clairemiller.bsky.social

For the past 4 years Peter Malinauskas Govt has being using taxpayers’ money to pay the The Advertiser to write puff pieces on how good his govt is (see 2/2). Mali claims the arrangement is confidential. He won’t be happy with the Ombudsman’s provisional #FOI decision👇. 1/2 #saparli

@genderqueeries.ca Hi I remember trading posts w/ you about #FOI in #BC a few months ago. Wanted to make sure you heard @bcfipa.bsky.social's latest podcast & news @oipcbc.bsky.social has a consultation...
First, FIPA's podcast: fipa.bc.ca/nm/20260912-...

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We need Freedom of Information in Ontario.

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