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FoI Disclosure Logs for 2007, 2008 and 2009
Li Na made this Freedom of Information request to University of Salford
The request was successful.
From: Li Na
17 November 2009
Dear Sir or Madam,
I notice that you have published summaries of Freedom of
Information requests for 2005 and 2006 on your website at
http://www.ils.salford.ac.uk/about/3rs/l...
Please could you provide similar summaries of FoI requests for
2007, 2008 and 2009.
Yours faithfully,
Li Na
From: Li Na
17 December 2009
Dear University of Salford,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of
Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of University of
Salford's handling of my FOI request 'FoI Disclosure Logs for 2007,
2008 and 2009'.
1. By law, the University of Salford should normally have responded
promptly, and at the latest by 16 December 2009.
2. The disclosure of this information has already been tested in
the Information Commissioner's Office. In fact the publication of
these logs should be part of your organisation's publication scheme
and I am curious to know why I even have to file an FOI request for
them as they ought to be automatically disclosed. Please see:
http://www.ico.gov.uk/what_we_cover/free...
"Lists and registers
Disclosure logs
Where a university produces a disclosure log indicating the
information that has been provided in response to request it should
be readily available. Disclosure logs are themselves recommended as
good practice."
I expect your substantive reply promptly.
Yours faithfully,
Li Na
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is
available on the Internet at this address:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/fo...
From: Matthew Stephenson
University of Salford
30 June 2010
Dear Li Na,
I apologise for the extended delay in responding to your request relating
to FoI disclosure logs.
Unfortunately, your requests was not processed due to an oversight and I
am sorry that it has taken me this long to reply to your request.
Discussion at the time took place relating to the publication of the
disclosure logs. They had been prepared but had not been published. I
requested that the be published at the time but as the Information
Governance function was being transferred from Information and Learning
Services Division to Governance Services Unit at the time, we did not have
control of the appropriate part of the website.
Disclosure logs will be published up to the end of 2009 in the next 28
days and I will inform you when these have been added to the University of
Salford website and provide you with a copy of them.
Once again I would like to apologise and hope that the forthcoming
publication of the logs will be to your satisfaction.
Yours sincerely
Matthew Stephenson
Matthew Stephenson
Head of Information Governance
Governance Services
University of Salford
Clifford Whitworth Building
University of Salford
Salford, M5 4WT.
T: 0161 295 6856
F: 0161 295 6339
[1][email address]
[2]www.infogov.salford.ac.uk
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From: Li Na
30 June 2010
Dear Matthew Stephenson,
Thank you for your helpful reply. If you can let me know when they
have been added to your website, and send me the link, that would
be fine.
Yours sincerely,
Li Na
Damien Shannon left an annotation (13 August 2010)
Surely it undermines their defence against other requests (conspiracy & vexatiousness) if they're hand-picking ones that people have sent them for approval?
From: Matthew Stephenson
University of Salford
17 August 2010
Dear Li Na,
I apologise for not getting back to you.
The disclosure logs were published in July.
To view them please follow this link:
[1]http://www.infogov.salford.ac.uk/freedom...
Yours sincerely
Matthew Stephenson
Matthew Stephenson
Head of Information Governance
Governance Services
University of Salford
Clifford Whitworth Building
University of Salford
Salford, M5 4WT.
T: 0161 295 6856
F: 0161 295 6339
[2][email address]
[3]www.infogov.salford.ac.uk
From: Stephenson Matthew
Sent: 30 June 2010 15:56
To: [FOI #23330 email]
Subject: Disclosure logs
Dear Li Na,
I apologise for the extended delay in responding to your request relating
to FoI disclosure logs.
Unfortunately, your requests was not processed due to an oversight and I
am sorry that it has taken me this long to reply to your request.
Discussion at the time took place relating to the publication of the
disclosure logs. They had been prepared but had not been published. I
requested that the be published at the time but as the Information
Governance function was being transferred from Information and Learning
Services Division to Governance Services Unit at the time, we did not have
control of the appropriate part of the website.
Disclosure logs will be published up to the end of 2009 in the next 28
days and I will inform you when these have been added to the University of
Salford website and provide you with a copy of them.
Once again I would like to apologise and hope that the forthcoming
publication of the logs will be to your satisfaction.
Yours sincerely
Matthew Stephenson
Matthew Stephenson
Head of Information Governance
Governance Services
University of Salford
Clifford Whitworth Building
University of Salford
Salford, M5 4WT.
T: 0161 295 6856
F: 0161 295 6339
[4][email address]
[5]www.infogov.salford.ac.uk
References
Visible links
1. http://www.infogov.salford.ac.uk/freedom...
2. mailto:[email address]
3. http://www.infogov.salford.ac.uk/
4. mailto:[email address]
5. http://www.infogov.salford.ac.uk/
Li Na left an annotation (27 August 2010)
26 August 2010
Dear Ms Na,
I am writing with regard to your complaint, reference above, that you had requested the FOI disclosure logs for 2007, 2008 and 2009 but had not received a response.
As you know, I am currently dealing with a number of complaints about the public authority, including a further complaint brought by you. I have therefore raised this matter with the university during my investigations.
It appears that this particular request was overlooked and, once I had brought it to their attention, the university undertook to rectify matters. I understand that the FOI disclosure logs you asked for were uploaded to the university’s website a few weeks ago and you were recently informed of this.
The omission of the disclosure logs from the website constitutes a breach of section 19 of the Act, and the failure of the public authority to address your request for information in a timely fashion will be a breach of section 10 of the Act. I would suggest that the most appropriate way to deal with those breaches would be for me to refer them to the Commissioner’s Enforcement team. The Enforcement team will review the case and decide whether to take any action. This could range from writing to the authority to remind it of its obligations, asking for its policies and procedures regarding request handling to be reviewed, or the serving of a Practice Recommendation or Enforcement Notice. If the Enforcement team chooses not to take any action at this time, it will, at the very least, log the issues raised and monitor any future complaints made to the ICO about this particular public authority. You will not be contacted directly to be informed of what, if any, action the Enforcement team intends to take.
This would therefore appear to complete the outstanding elements of your complaint and on that basis, subject to the referral to the Enforcement team, above, I would suggest that the matter could be treated as informally resolved. I hope you can therefore agree to this case being closed. You should understand that the matters raised in your other complaint, and those of other individuals, remain under active investigation and your agreement to close this particular case does not in any way prejudice those other cases, but it would permit me to remove one issue from the overall picture and therefore help focus the ICO’s (and the university’s) attention on the more substantive matters before it.
If you agree that this matter can been satisfactorily resolved by the proposed course of action, above, I would be grateful for your reply, indicating that you agree to withdraw your complaint and consent for the case to be closed as ‘informally resolved’. If you do not agree with the suggested remedy, please give your reasons why the case should not be closed as suggested. Kindly reply within the next 10 working days. If I do not receive a reply to this message within that time, I will assume you agree to the closure of this case as proposed.
I hope this has been helpful to you.
Yours sincerely
Steven Dickinson
Case Officer, Complaints Resolution
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Li Na left an annotation (11 August 2010)
At last, a successful request.
It took more than 8 months.
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