HMP Hewell - Prisoner Call Recordings
Dear HM Prison Service,
Please, can you answer the following questions?
1. Are prisoner telephone calls recorded at HMP Hewell?
2. What is the procedure that HMP Hewell expects to be followed in order for a police force to get access to such recordings?
Yours faithfully,
J Lee
Dear J Lee
Thank you for your e-mail. I am writing to advise you that your enquiry
does not fall under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) regime and
has been rejected by the Disclosure Team.
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organisations the right of access to all types of recorded information
held, at the time the request is received, by public authorities such as
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for a request for information to be handled as a FOI request, it must be
for recorded information. For example, a FOI request would be for a copy
of a policy, rather than an explanation as to why we have that policy in
place. On occasion, the MoJ receives requests that do not ask for recorded
information, but ask more general questions about, for example, a policy,
opinion or a decision.
You may wish to re-submit your enquiry to the Ministry of Justice, which
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