Electoral register and email addresses

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Open Rights Group

Dear West Oxfordshire District Council,

I am interested to know whether:

(a) You hold personal email addresses as part of your Electoral Register, and if so,

(b) how many emails you hold in the Electoral Register;

(c) What the source or sources of these emails is;

(d) Whether you have included all or some portion of these emails as part of the datasets you gave to election candidates at the 2019 General Election;

(e) If so, how many emails were supplied;

(f) Whether you supplied email details in other prior elections.

Yours faithfully,

Jim Killock
Open Rights Group

Enquiries (WODC), West Oxfordshire District Council

Thank you for getting in touch. We aim to deal with all emails within 2
working days, however you may not receive a further response from us
unless we require further information.

 

If you are reporting a missed bin collection in the email you have just
sent, we will log this for you. Please leave your bin in the usual place
and crews will return to collect it.

 

In order for us to deal with your missed collection quicker in the future,
please report direct to our depot online via
[1]www.westoxon.gov.uk/missedbin

 

Did you know many things can be reported direct via our website-
[2]www.westoxon.gov.uk/report

 

You may also find the following email addresses useful for future
reference:

 

Housing - [email address]

Council Tax – [email address]

Benefits – [email address]

Planning – [email address]

 

Kind regards,

Customer Services Team.

 

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FOI (WODC), West Oxfordshire District Council

Dear Jim Killock,
 
Further to your request, please find response below:
 
 
(a) You hold personal email addresses as part of your Electoral Register,
and if so, Not as part of the register, but yes as part of the records
held on individuals
 
(b) how many emails you hold in the Electoral Register; I am not aware of
a means of finding that out
 
(c) What the source or sources of these emails is; In most cases, they are
where an individual has given an email address at the time of making an
application to be registered to vote or for a postal or proxy vote or when
responding to an enquiry form
 
(d) Whether you have included all or some portion of these emails as part
of the datasets you gave to election candidates at the 2019 General
Election; No
 
(e) If so, how many emails were supplied; N/A
 
(f) Whether you supplied email details in other prior elections. No
 
 
If you are unhappy  with the service you have received in relation to your
request and wish to make a complaint you should write to the Monitoring
Officer, West Oxforshire District Council, Elmfield
New Yatt Road, Witney, OX28 1PB.
 
 
If you are not content with the outcome of your complaint, you may apply
directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. Generally the ICO
cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted the complaints procedure
provided by the Council. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:
The Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane,
Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.
 
 
Kind regards
 
Freedom of Information Team,
West Oxfordshire District Council
 
 
 
 
 

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