As a follow up to the Spy Blog article
Where are all the Home Office press releases ? 177 spin doctors but only 5 press releases a week ?
another WhatDoTheyKnow.com FOIA request has been submitted to the Home Office:
As a follow up to the Spy Blog article
Where are all the Home Office press releases ? 177 spin doctors but only 5 press releases a week ?
another WhatDoTheyKnow.com FOIA request has been submitted to the Home Office:
If you have suggestions for other FOIA requests, bearing in mind the large list of exemptions, then email them to us, or use the comments facility on this blog, and we will see what we can do, without you yourself having to come under the direct scrutiny of "Sir Humphrey Appleby" or his minions.
email: blog @spy[dot]org[dot]uk
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WhatDoTheyKnow.com - FOIA request submission and publication website from MySociety.org
Campaign for the Freedom of Information
NO2ID - opposition to the Home Office's Compulsory Biometric ID Card and National Identity Register centralised database.
UK Public CCTV Surveillance Regulation Campaign
Parliament Protest blog - resistance to the Designated Area restricting peaceful demonstrations or lobbying in the vicinity of Parliament.
Amnesty International 's irrepressible.info campaign
Yes, Minister Series 1, Episode 1, "Open Government" First airtime BBC: 25 February 1980
"Bernard Woolley: "Well, yes, Sir...I mean, it [open government] is the Minister's policy after all."
Sir Arnold: "My dear boy, it is a contradiction in terms: you can be open or you can have government."
Campaign for the Freedom of Information
Office of the Information Commissioner,
who is meant to regulate the Freedom of Information Act 2000 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Scottish Information Commissioner,
who similarly regulates the Freedom of Information Act (Scotland) 2002
Information Tribunal - deals with appeals against decisions by the Information Commissioners.
Freedom of Information pages - Department for Constitutional Affairs
Friends of the Earth FOIA Request Generator and links to contact details for Central Government Departments and their Publication Schemes
UK Government Information Asset Register - in theory, this should point you to the correct Government documents, but in practice...well see for yourself.
Access all Information is also logging some FOIA requests
foi.mysociety.org - prototype FOIA request submission, tracking and publication website
UK Freedom of Information Act Blog - started by Steve Wood, now handed over to Katherine Gundersen
Your Right To Know - Heather Brooke
Informaticopia - Rod Ward
Open Secrets - a blog about freedom of information by BBC journalist Martin Rosenbaum
Panopticon blog - by Timothy Pitt-Payne and Anya Proops. Timothy Pitt-Payne is probably the leading legal expert on the UK's Freedom of Information Act law, often appearing on behlaf of the Information Commissioner's Office at the Information Tribunal.
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