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Freedom of Information request
Our reference: 17504217

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Dear David Joshua
 
Thank you for your request for information to Brighton & Hove City Council
('the council') that was received on 16 December 2024. 
 
I am writing to ask you to clarify your request. This is because we are
not certain that we need further details from you in order to identify and
locate the information.
 
Your request was for the following:
 
Please provide me with all emails sent by Cllr Jacob Taylor to:
Curtis James
Carlie Goldsmith
Shannon McCarthy- Franklin
Will McInnes
Emily Butler
Dave Bailey
 
 
In order for us to process this request, please could you provide the
following information:
Please can you provide a subject matter for the information that you are
requesting. In order to determine whether you have a valid Freedom of
Information request the council needs to consider the serious value or
purpose of your request and we are unable to determine that from the
information that you have provided therefore we are giving you the
opportunity to explain or refine your request..
 
We are unable to process your request without the information being
requested above. Therefore, we have placed your request on hold until we
receive this clarification.
 
Please note that once the requested information/clarification has been
received the 20 working days time frame for us to respond to the request
will start again.
 
If we do not receive this information from you within 20 working days from
the date of this email (17/01/2025) we shall assume that you no longer
require this information and we will close your request.
 
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Yours sincerely
 
 
Information Rights Team

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Dear David Joshua,
 
You have not clarified as requested, therefore we are unable to determine
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This request will remain on hold until we have received a response to our
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From: [FOI #1215593 email]
Sent: Sat Dec 21 2024 19:29:34 GMT
To: [email address]
Subject: Re: Freedom of Information request (ref: 17504217)
(Attachments:) Email (original message) from [FOI #1215593 email] received
on 21/12/2024.eml, Email from [FOI #1215593 email] - Re: Freedom of
Information request .txt

Dear Brighton and Hove City Council,

My request is very simple.

Please provide me with copies of any emails Cllr Taylor sent to those
individuals. 

It has very clear and reasonable parameters. The questions you have asked
are not relevant in providing me with this information. In the context of
the current debate about school admissions your request is disingenuous
and viewed as a delaying tactic.

Yours sincerely,

David Joshua

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Dear David Joshua,
 
Please can you clarify whether you are requesting all emails send by
Councillor Taylor to the named individuals, or you are requesting all
emails sent by Cllr Taylor concerning "Secondary Schools reorganisation"?
 

Please can you clarify the timeframe for this request.  How many years of
data do you want us to search for the requested information?

Please be aware that section 12 of the [1]Freedom of Information Act 2000
(legislation.gov.uk) (the Act) allows the council to exempt a request
where we estimate that it would take over 18 hours to comply with it. 
Further guidance can be found on the ICO website at
[2]costs_of_compliance_exceeds_appropriate_limit.pdf (ico.org.uk)

Please see the Information Commissioners advice on their website: [3]How
to write an effective request for information | ICO.

 
Kind regards,
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From: [FOI #1215593 email]
Sent: Mon Dec 23 2024 23:21:59 GMT
To: [email address]
Subject: Re: Freedom of Information request (ref: 17504217)
(Attachments:) Email (original message) from [FOI #1215593 email] received
on 23/12/2024.eml, Email from [FOI #1215593 email] - Re: Freedom of
Information request .txt

Dear Brighton and Hove City Council,

I'm asking for emails sent from a key decision-maker to individuals
involved in campaigning on a controversial and significant issue facing
the city. Secondary school reorganisation.

Yours sincerely,

David Joshua

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Freedom of Information request
Our reference: 17504217

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Dear David Joshua
 
Freedom of Information Act 2000
 
Thank you for your request for information to Brighton & Hove City Council
('the council') that was received on 13 January 2025. Your Information
Request has been logged as;
 
Please provide me with all emails sent by Cllr Jacob Taylor to:

Curtis James
Carlie Goldsmith
Shannon McCarthy- Franklin
Will McInnes
Emily Butler
Dave Bailey

Clarification: I am requesting all emails from Cllr Taylor, who was only
elected in May 2023, to the listed individuals.
 
We are considering your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
. Our external website has information relating to this that you may find
useful. The link is below
 
[1]Freedom of Information
 
We aim to send a response to all requests for information within 20
working days of receipt. We plan to respond to your request by 10 February
2025. If we need more time, we'll let you know the extended due date.
We'll also contact you should we require any additional information in
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Yours sincerely
 
 
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Freedom of Information request
Our reference: 17504217

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Dear David Joshua
 
Thank you for your request for information received on 13 January 2025.
 
Please find attached our response to your request. We apologise for the
length of time it has taken us to respond to you. 
 
Should you wish to contact us again regarding this request, please do not
edit the subject line when replying to this email. If you change this it
will take us longer to identify the request that you are corresponding
about and will delay us in responding to you.
 
Yours sincerely
 
 
Information Rights Team

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Our reference: 17504217

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Dear David Joshua
 
Thank you for your request for an Internal Review received on 20 February
2025. We are sorry that you are dissatisfied with our attempts to handle
your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
 
We can confirm that we are considering your concerns and we will aim to
provide you with a response by 20 March 2025.
 
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Yours sincerely,
 
 
 
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Information requested by: David Joshua
Review carried out by: James McLaughlin
 
 
 
 
 
 
Freedom of Information request
Our reference: 17504217

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Dear David Joshua 
 

Freedom of Information Act 2000 - Internal review

Thank you for your internal review request of the 20^th February 2025 in
relation to your Freedom of Information Act request regarding Councillor
Taylor's Emails which we received on the 13^th January 2025. 

We have now processed your request and I can confirm that we partly uphold
your complaint. 

Your request and our response are below:

Your request

'Please provide me with all emails sent by Cllr Jacob Taylor to: Curtis
James Carlie Goldsmith Shannon McCarthy- Franklin Will McInnes Emily
Butler Dave Bailey Clarification: I am requesting all emails from Cllr
Taylor, who was only elected in May 2023, to the listed individuals.'

Our initial response

On the 19^th February 2025, we responded stating that this information is
held and that some of it was exempt from disclosure under section 40(2) of
the Act - Personal information.

Your internal review request

On the 20^th February 2025, you submitted the following email:

' Please review the decision to redact and withhold information on the
basis that this would necessitate the release of personal information.
Further, that the release of this personal information overrides the clear
public interest in this information.

The redactions you have applied to the supplied information are extensive.
I find it hard to believe all of this falls within the definitions of
personal information and certainly not to the extend it would fail the
public interest test.

Furthermore the individuals listed in my original FoI have decided to
mount a public campaign to change education in the city. If they have
chosen to use personal information to further this case it would seem
paradoxical for this to fail the public interest test - it has become the
basis for policy formation.

I further note the significant length of time this request has been drawn
out for, and it's relationship to the Council's decision-making on this
very controversial issue.'

Our internal review response

This internal review will consider the following:

•    how the request for information was handled and the initial
response,
*    whether the request was completed within statutory timescales,
*    whether the relevant information was identified,
*    and whether to uphold the original exemptions or whether
different or additional exemption(s) apply.

The initial response to your request was not sent to you within the
20-day statutory limit and therefore was not compliant under [1]Section
10(1) of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). For this aspect of your
complaint, we uphold and would like to apologise for the delay in
providing you with the requested information.

In processing your internal review request we have reviewed the contents
of the information held by the Council within the scope of your Freedom of
Information request to determine whether the exemptions cited had been
appropriately applied.

The exemptions in our initial response were as follows:

[2]section 40(2) of the Act - Personal Information

It has been identified that the document provided as part of our first
stage response was not clear. By way of explanation, the information
considered out of scope has been redacted as if it were exempt under
section 40 and no explanation was provided to show this differentiation.
This document has been reviewed and marked up clearly to show the details
identified as not being within the scope of your request.

All information that remains in black is considered exempt under section
40. I am satisfied following review of the documentation that what was
disclosed is everything in scope and that it has been appropriately
redacted, despite the lack of clarity in our first stage response.

Please find attached the amended version with the redactions retained as
it is considered that the privacy of those individuals outweighs the
public interest in disclosure and therefore the exemption is upheld for
this personal data.

We will be reviewing our redaction processes to ensure that it is clear
the reasons for removing any information, especially where something is
considered out of scope, rather than exempt. I am sorry for any confusion
this has caused and hope the amended version clarifies this matter.

The final decision of this review is that your complaint is partially
upheld.

The above concludes our internal review and we will now close this request
as of the date of this response.

 
If you are not content with the outcome of this Internal Review you have
the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner's Office for a
further decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:
 
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
 
0303 123 1113
 
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Yours faithfully
 
 
James McLaughlin
Information Rights Manager
Information Rights Team

 
 
 
 
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