Dear Sir or Madam,

Please provide a copy of your Appendix A associated with item 6 of
your Cabinet Agenda for 20 October 2008 related to adoption of a
Model Publication Scheme under FoI as it is not on your Website
(i.e. it is missing on 14 October 2008 at about 20:32 hours )
http://www.south-norfolk.gov.uk/democrac...
despite its existence being identified.

Would you also provide copies of all working documents associated
with this including in particular the notes related to rewriting
large sections of the Records Society GB guidance and the SNDC
staff identifying that this had been accepted as policy.

Please provide any additional data retention guidance prepared by
the Council's legal staff.

Yours faithfully,

Stuart Hardwicke CARRUTHERS

Dear Sir or Madam,

The SNDC identify in its decision notices that it has adopted the
publication scheme associated with the report. As there is no
publication scheme associated with the report on the SNDCWeb site
Wedenesday 22 October 2008 at about 12.40 hours please confirm that
one is not available.

The SNDC as you will be aware would have been able to confirm
through its publication scheme that it had failed to appoint an
Electoral registration Officer and/or a Returning Officer - and was
not able to make any decisions... as the Council had been elected
from a Council that had also failed to meet these reasonably basic
statutory requirements... and has sought to subvert the electoral
process it must be assumed for the benefit of officers and the
local political associations.

Yours sincerely,

Stuart Hardwicke CARRUTHERS

Dear Mr Carruthers

Further to your FOI request below, I should advise you the link has now been fixed on the website and you should now find you are able to download the document and I attach the link for your convenience.

http://www.south-norfolk.gov.uk/democrac...

Just in case you are still unable to access this, I also attach the document to this email.

In relation to your second request, I can confirm that there are no other working documents relating to the revised Publication Scheme and thus as the Council does not hold this information, we are unable to supply it.

Turning to your third request relating to Data Retention, I should advise you that the Council's current Data Retention policy is available on our website and I attach the link for your convenience.

http://www.south-norfolk.gov.uk/democrac...

Joanna Kitchener
Scrutiny and Information Rights Manager
South Norfolk Council
Long Stratton, Norwich
NR15 2XE
01508 533602
www.south-norfolk.gov.uk

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Dear Right2Know,

I am aware that a copy of a document purporting to be the SNDC
policy towards data retention is on its web site. This appears to
have been a project that David WARD was responsible for in about
2002 there have been mentions of this as well as being the case..
on the SNDC website.

I am able to find no reference to the document having ever been
adopted as policy.. and am aware that the guidance in draft form
(and that was not available) deviates quite significantly from
existing guidance.. as well as a Council's statutory duties.

Please provide the information actually requested.. am pleased that
you have managed to fix your website... although there might still
be problems with some of the content origination machinery.

Yours sincerely,

Stuart Hardwicke CARRUTHERS

Dear Mr Carruthers

The specific information requested has been provided and I am unable to determine any fresh requests for information in your latest email. No further action will therefore be taken on this issue.

Joanna Kitchener
Scrutiny and Information Rights Officer
South Norfolk Council
Long Stratton, Norwich
NR15 2XE
01508 533602
www.south-norfolk.gov.uk

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Dear Right2Know,

Review requested.

Yours sincerely,

Stuart Hardwicke CARRUTHERS

Dear Mr Carruthers

It would appear that you have misunderstood the purpose of the internal review panel in relation to FOI requests. Perhaps if I explain the situation again, this may assist you.

When a request for recorded information is refused using an exemption as laid out in the Freedom of Information Act 2000, then the requester has the right of appeal against that decision. The first stage of that appeal process is to request that the public body refusing the information convenes an independent panel to examine the decision and the reasons behind it. They will then either uphold the decision and refuse to supply the information, or overturn the decision and release the information. If the first course is followed and the information is still not released, then the requester may appeal to the Information Commissioner.

Under the request for information which has been given the identifier FOI 08-175, I have provided you with the Model Publication Scheme and the Data Retention Policy as requested. I have advised you that there are no further reports. I have therefore not refused to supply any information to you and thus it is not possible for a internal review to be convened to examine the refusal, as there has been no refusal. No action will therefore be taken on your email.

Should you wish to take this matter further, you will need to contact the Information Commissioner whose details are as follows:

Office of the Information Commissioner
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire SK9 5AF
Tel: 01625 545745
Email: [email address]
Website: http://www.ico.gov.uk/

Joanna Kitchener
Scrutiny and Information Rights Officer
South Norfolk Council
Long Stratton, Norwich
NR15 2XE
01508 533602
www.south-norfolk.gov.uk

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Dear Mr Carruthers

There does not appear to a request for any information in this email, despite Freedom of Information being quoted in the title and I will not take any action therefore on this email.

Furthermore, as you know, your previous, numerous emails relating to the Electoral Registration Officer have been declared vexatious under FOI 08-103 and you have appealed that decision to the Information Commissioner who will doubtless consider your appeal in due course.

Joanna Kitchener
Scrutiny and Information Rights Officer
South Norfolk Council
Long Stratton, Norwich
NR15 2XE
01508 533602
www.south-norfolk.gov.uk

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Dear Right2Know,

At 16:58 hours you were forwarded a copy of the garbage that you
have been making available and identifying that it complies with
FoI. review is requested - from which if required it can proceed to
the Information Commissioner

Yours sincerely,

Stuart Hardwicke CARRUTHERS

Dear Mr Carruthers

I have already explained there is no decision to refuse to supply information, therefore an internal review cannot assess my decision.

Please note I shall not correspond further on any further emails requesting the Model Publication Scheme, which as explained several times is available on the web and attached to one of my previous emails.

All future emails will simply be filed on this matter.

Joanna Kitchener
Scrutiny and Information Rights Officer
South Norfolk Council
Long Stratton, Norwich
NR15 2XE
01508 533602
www.south-norfolk.gov.uk

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