2011/12/23 Tom Steinberg <[email protected]>: > Incidentally, I see this silly season story as very much connected to > the DoJ report that started this thread: > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16302375 >
One or two are prima facie sensible (who knows how many of the rest are out of context - some serious fact checking would be useful). But they illustrate exactly the point I and Mark have been making about the way in which public authorities understand and work with FOI. People *used* to make exactly these kinds of requests (before FOI) of local councils. People really did send in letters - either because they were mad, obsessed or just having fun, asking these kinds of questions. The FOI has made essentially no difference to the way in which councils should handle these requests. I'd like to see some fairly thorough counter-propaganda that analyses this sort of thing carefully. -- Francis Davey _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list [email protected] https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/archive%40mail-archive.com
