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Anne Hide
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Due to the ease in which a new WDTK user could impersonate an existing WDTK user and then use my FOI request to propagate a blatant lie means I no longer feel safe. I will not be using the WDTK site any longer.
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This person's 1 Freedom of Information requests
Chair of the CLAE retiring
Successful.
by Department for Communities and Local Government to Anne Hide on 8 November 2010.
Successful.
Dear Ms Hide,
Please find a response to your FOI request of 13 October requesting
information on the Local Government Ombudsman.
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This person's 98 annotations
Mickey Mouse... Nepotism... Coercion... Authorisation
Partially successful.
whoops forgot to add I use my initials on the forum ABH.
Mickey Mouse... Nepotism... Coercion... Authorisation
Partially successful.
Why do I post annotations on the WDTK site?
'Annotations on WhatDoTheyKnow are to help people get the information they want, or to give them pointers...
Since it was common practice pre Bourn for Commissioners to swan off abroad at taxpayer's expense plus the fact the CLAE haven't kept any proper recor...
Mickey Mouse... Nepotism... Coercion... Authorisation
Partially successful.
If a member of the public can work out what information the requester wanted why can't Ms Pook. The requester may have quoted the wrong year but the i...
"Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it"
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/288200.html
LGO, Chairman of the CLAE, Chi...
The three commissioners at the time White, Abraham and Thomas authorised the trip as proposed by Mr Nigel Karney. The expenses incurred on the trip wo...
Gifts to Australian Ombudsmen during Mr Redmond's 2005 Study Tour
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Do I understand this policy correctly?
It allowed Mr Redmond to receive hospitality from Australian Ombudsmen (at Australian taxpayers expense) and...
Mr Redmond is following in John Bourn's footsteps by retiring in order to bring closure to this scandal. The focus should now move on to those who aut...
As I suggested on other FOI requests this is the same reason John Bourne had to resign.
'The man who was virtually impossible to sack finally agreed...
Tony Redmond's 2005 Australian study tour feedback/report
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I think the cabal will want to drag things out until after Mr Redmond has retired.
Tony Redmond - Not complying with the Code of Conduct
Information not held.
I made a comment on another FOI request which also applies to this one.
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/tony_redmonds_2005_australian_st#commen...
Tony Redmond's 2005 Australian study tour feedback/report
Partially successful.
Dr Jane Martin's judgement will be very interesting, will she expose or join the cabal?
Tony Redmond - Not complying with the Code of Conduct
Information not held.
If he flew to Montreal then caught a train to his destination (a very unusual thing to do unless he had business in Montreal, the Ballet?) why didn't...
Tony Redmond Flights 2010
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Looking for details of his farewell tour? :)
Tony Redmond's 2005 Australian study tour feedback/report
Partially successful.
The Victorian Ombudsman works in a similar way as the LGO.
As one Victorian Minister stated on retirement
"None of these bodies submit themselves...
Tony Redmond's 2005 Australian study tour feedback/report
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As with other taxpayer funded institutions, pre John Bourne scandal, many CEO/Commissioners were at it and saw it as a perk of the job. No proper scru...
Tony Redmond's 2005 Australian study tour feedback/report
Partially successful.
"The only document which we still have in our records is Mr Redmond's report to the Commission."
Over 40 days to extract a document they had on file!...
New policy on whatdotheyknow.com
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Questions must be raised about the ICO's failure to get a grip of this situation and do something about it. For if it falls to public and political pr...
Salaries in excess £58,000.per annum
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You won't get names due to the data protection act but you should get job titles.
Release of Documents
Request to Local Government Ombudsmen by Keith edmunds. Annotated by Anne Hide on 18 September 2010.
Refused.
If anyone is unhappy at the way the Local Government Ombudsmen operate they should submit a response to the law commission's review of public service...
Tony Redmond and wife / exceptionally long journeys
Partially successful.
The individual LGO could have found any other public authority guilty of maladministration for conducting their affairs in the way in which they, as i...
Release of Documents
Request to Local Government Ombudsmen by Keith edmunds. Annotated by Anne Hide on 16 September 2010.
Refused.
I doubt the ICO would accept anything less than a week or so as an unreasonable delay on the part of a public authority acknowledging an FOI requester...
Release of Documents
Request to Local Government Ombudsmen by Keith edmunds. Annotated by Anne Hide on 13 September 2010.
Refused.
"We do not hold electronic copies of the two emails I sent you in hard copy."
No computer copies of emails retained, only a hard copies kept. Pull t...
Tony Redmond's documentation
Refused.
"Among quango chiefs now seen as vulnerable is former Labour Culture Secretary Lord Smith, chairman of the £1billion a year plus Environment Agency......
Mandatory rates relief responsibilities
Request to Local Government Ombudsmen by Roland Rashleigh-Berry. Annotated by Anne Hide on 4 September 2010.
Refused.
FOI can only be used to access information held by a public organisation. The LGO will not hold the information you seek.
