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>>> Bill Wren <[FOI #24870 email]> 19 December 2009
>>>

Dear Bristol City Council,

Could you please supply to me the following information available
from your 'Websense' internet tracking software:

1. In a suitably anonymised form (ie. removal of all names and all
other personal identifiers) all the records available through the
'Websense' software on internet usage from 1 April 2009 - 1 October
2009 for the following roles:

- Chief Executive
- Deputy Chief Executive
- Strategic Leader - Children and Young People's Services
- Strategic Leader - City Development
- Strategic Leader - Neighbourhoods
- Strategic Leader - Health and Social Care
- Strategic Leader - Resources
- Strategic Leader - Business Transformation
- Strategic Leader - Director of Public Health
- The Facilities Manager
- Acting Director Culture and Leisure Services
- Strategic HR Business Partner for Chief Executive, Deputy Chief
Executive,Resources & Transformation, Recruitment Services &
Employee Initiatives
- Head of Museum Service
- Head of Marketing and Pr

Collating this information would take more than the 18 hour time limit
specified in the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Reports of all sites visited by each post holder would need to be
run, each post holder would then need to be asked to explain if all the
sites shown had been actually visited (see answer to question 2 below), if
this had been done in the course of their duties and whether any
exemptions applied such as personal information or commercial
confidentiality. This would take more than 18 hours to collate.

2. Can you provide the median average number of 'hits' and 'page
views' for a worker with access to a computer throughout their
working day at Bristol City Council.

Unfortunately this cannot be done.
This is because there is no summary report within websense that would
allow us to provide median or average user statistics.

If we were to try to manually calculate the average it would over 18 hours
as we would have to run a report on each individual who has access & then
try to work out an average.

Page view cannot be done either. The internet works by loading a page
which in turn may also page load info from multiple other pages/sites so
looking at one particular website may appear as one view but could easily
generate 4 or more hits as the website is connecting to information
elsewhere. This means we cannot translate this into actual page visits
without manually checking each website visited to ensure that other sites
have not been linked in.

3. Can you provide the current list of internet sites Bristol City
Council considers 'inappropriate to the good conduct of the
Council’s business' or information regarding 'inappropriate
material including any material whose presence on Council systems
might be prejudicial to public confidence in the Council'

The Council does not keep a list of 'inappropriate' sites. Access to the
internet is limited by staff roles/requirements to deliver their service.
Generally, staff are given business access only unless they require
business plus in order to carry out their duties.

In terms of public confidence, Websence does filter different categories
of sites, for example, public access to sites with adult
material/drugs/illegal or questionable material/militancy and
extremism/Racism and hate/tasteless/violence and weapons. There is also
restricted access for computers used by minors.

If you would like further details on either of these systems then please
let me know.

Yours faithfully,

Yours faithfully,

Bill Wren

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