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West Lindsey District Council use of "RIPA"?

Mr B P Wagstaff made this Freedom of Information request to West Lindsey District Council

The request was successful.

From: Mr B P Wagstaff

27 March 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

Request made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

1) Please supply the amount in total, of authorised "Regulation of
Investigatory Powers Act 2000" (RIPA)Investigations, undertaken
over the past 5 years by West Lindsey District Council?

2) Please Indicate the purpose of these RIPA Investigations &
authorisations Individually?

3) Supply in detail the specific cost to West Lindsey District
Council Authority on an individual basis, of the RIPA
Investigations now concluded?

4) Specify the specific level, or position of the personnel within
West Lindsey District Council Authority, who signed or gave
authorisation for these Investigations individually, case by case?

5) Please Indicate specifically the outcome or conclusion of
individual Investigations undertaken and concluded?

Yours faithfully,

Mr B P Wagstaff

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West Lindsey District Council

27 March 2009

Dear Customer,

Thank you for contacting West Lindsey District Council.

Your message reference is: B49cd18e00000.000000000001.0002.mml

Please quote this reference if you need to contact us again regarding this matter.

You can expect a response from us within 1 working day.

Thank you

Customer Services Team

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From: FOI
West Lindsey District Council

30 March 2009

Dear Mr Wagstaff

Freedom of Information Act 2000 - Information Request No. 523

Thank you for your request for information received on 30 March
2009.

Your request is now being considered and you will receive the information
within the statutory 20 working days as defined by the Freedom of
Information Act 2000, subject to the information not being exempt or
containing a reference to a third party.

Yours sincerely

FOI Office

West Lindsey District Council

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person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential
and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or
other use, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by
persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If
you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the
material from your computer. Any correspondence with the sender will be
subject to automatic monitoring.

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From: FOI
West Lindsey District Council

29 April 2009

Attachment FOI Request 523 Mr Wagstaff.pdf
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Dear Mr Wagstaff

Freedom of Information Request No. 523

Please find attached response to the above request

Yours sincerely

FOI Office

West Lindsey District Council

Guildhall

Marshall's Yard

Gainsborough

Lincolnshire

DN21 2NA

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person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential
and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or
other use, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by
persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If
you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the
material from your computer. Any correspondence with the sender will be
subject to automatic monitoring.

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From: Mr B P Wagstaff

9 May 2009

Dear FOI,Mr Nicholson,

Thank you for the Information supplied in response to my Freedom of
Information Request dated the 27th March 09.

"West Lindsey District Council use of "RIPA"?

Could you please confirm that the tables that West-Lindsey Council
have supplied, show the use of the Regulatory of Investigatory
powers Act 2000 (RIPA) by West- Lindsey on 90 occasions in total?

Yours sincerely,

Mr B P Wagstaff

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From: Mr B P Wagstaff

14 May 2009

Dear FOI,Mr Nicholson,WLDC

Could you please confirm that the tables that West-Lindsey District
Council have supplied, show the use of the Regulatory of
Investigatory
powers Act 2000 (RIPA) by West- Lindsey on 90 occasions? What
specific period does this cover please?

Does this request for clarity require a further F.O.I submission?

Yours sincerely,

Mr B P Wagstaff

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West Lindsey District Council

14 May 2009

Dear Customer,

Thank you for contacting West Lindsey District Council.

Your message reference is: B4a0c12c40000.000000000001.0002.mml

Please quote this reference if you need to contact us again regarding this matter.

You can expect a response from us within 1 working day.

Thank you

Customer Services Team

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From: Customer Services
West Lindsey District Council

14 May 2009

Dear Mr Wagstaff

Thank you for your email which I am forwarding onto Nicola Devine in
Democratic Services who will deal with your request.

Yours sincerely

Pat Murchie
Customer Services Adivisor

01427 676676
West Lindsey District Council
Guildhall
Marshall's Yard
Gainsborough
DN21 2NA
[email address]

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From: FOI
West Lindsey District Council

15 May 2009

Dear Mr Wagstaff

Freedom of Information Act 2000 - Information Request 523

Thank you for your email, set out below, received in the FOI office on 14
May 2009.

I write to advise that this clarification request was also received in the
FOI Office on 9 May 2009 and was immediately sent to James Nicholson to
deal with. There was such a short lapse in time between his response to
you and your clarification request that it was not logged as a new
request.

Mr Nicholson will respond as soon as possible.

Yours sincerely

FOI Office

West Lindsey District Council

Guildhall

Marshall's Yard

Gainsborough

Lincolnshire

DN21 2NA

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*** DISCLAIMER **** The information transmitted is intended only for the
person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential
and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or
other use, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by
persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If
you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the
material from your computer. Any correspondence with the sender will be
subject to automatic monitoring.

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From: Mr B P Wagstaff

18 May 2009

Dear FOI,

Regrettably as clearly shown full compliance when requested and
delays to Freedom of Information seem to be a common failure from
West-Lindsey District Council to date. This fully documented.

The conflicting information in the public domain on this issue
"'West Lindsey District Council use of "RIPA"?'when supplied by
WLDC officials, require absolute clarification which is still
outstanding to date.

This along with inappropriate document format as supplied by this
District Authority are hopefully being addressed so that requests
then meet the standards as stated from the Information
Commissioner, and required to meet West Lindsey District Councils
Statutory obligations to the public.

Yours sincerely,

Mr B P Wagstaff

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James Murray left an annotation (19 May 2009)

WLDC regularly and consistently engage in tactics of delay, evasion and obfuscation when asked questions concerning their failures. For example, on 18th December 2008 their chief executive, when asked how many persons he had sentenced to the 'single point of contact' administrative ploy, replied 'One'.This was untruthful and he was immediately contradicted by two persons who knew this to be so WLDC were asked specifically on this site and in other places the same question. The result is a five month delay and still there are no answers other than contradictory statements. [see my several FOI requests on this site for this and other examples not one of which has been supplied with all the information requested.
At least it is hoped that the embarrassment caused to this failed council may eventually shame it into more honest and less devious behaviour.

The behaviour of WKDC to date causes public outrage.

J.Murray

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From: FOI
West Lindsey District Council

22 May 2009

Dear Mr Wagstaff

Freedom of Information Request No. 523

Thank you for your email below.

Mr Nicholson has confirmed that there were 90 occasions in total where
West Lindsey District Council used the Regulatory of Investigatory Powers
Act 2000 (RIPA).

Yours sincerely

FOI Office

West Lindsey District Council

Guildhall

Marshall's Yard

Gainsborough

Lincolnshire

DN21 2NA

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From: FOI
West Lindsey District Council

22 May 2009

Dear Mr Wagstaff

Freedom of Information Request No. 523

Thank you for your email below.

The table supplied to you by Mr Nicholson details information covering the
specific `last 5 years' period which you requested in your original email,
which was received by the FOI Office on 30 March 2009.

This covers from 17 October 2003 up to 31 March 2009.

Yours sincerely

FOI Office

West Lindsey District Council

Guildhall

Marshall's Yard

Gainsborough

Lincolnshire

DN21 2NA

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James Murray left an annotation (23 May 2009)

This is typical of how WLDC duck and weave in their (successful ) efforts to evade the truth. They have no shame that their delays and evasion result in considerable injustice.

Keep asking WhatDoThey Know ? and eventually they will
be unable to hide the truth any more.

Incidentally a case in point is that they they continue to shield their untruthful CE after more than five months after his exposure. The simple truth is that the man lied, and refuses to to admit this. He has no excuse and cannot hide for ever.

J.Murray

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