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foi.mysociety.org FOIA request submission and publication website seems to be operational

{via Martin Rosenbaum's BBC Open Secrets blog)

It looks as if the foi.mysociety.org project to provide a website for submitting, partially tracking and publishing Freedom of Information Act requests and responses is working.

The website look and feel, and perhaps even the name will change, but the system is operational, and the source code for the system is available.

At present, you do not get a chance to preview your FOIA request before sending it off. You need to register a name (although you can use a pseudonym) and an email address.

The system sends you an email a with a web page URL to confirm that you want to send off your request, but, again, there is no opportunity to review a copy of what you are about to send off.

There are over 100,000 public bodies which are supposed to respond to Freedom of Information Act requests, so the current list needs to be expanded a lot.

There is an initial Google spreadsheet of most of the Local Authority FOIA request email addresses.

Hopefully this prototype system will soon be enhanced into a tool as useful as the other mysociety.org websites like TheyWorkForYou.com or WriteToThem.com etc.

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