Harassment
Dear Haringey Borough Council,
How many times have your staff had complaints / Court proceedings against them for harassing anyone who complains about them or disagrees with what they do?
How many times have HARINGEY staff harassed someone who has submitted FOI requests that they do not want to reply to?
(YOU CAN ADD ME TO THE LIST - so that is a start - 1 so far).
Thank you.
Yours faithfully,
Kay Young
B.A & B.Sc (Hons) OPEN
Dear Ms Young,
We wrote to you on 19 August to enquire whether you wanted us to undertake
an Independent Review of our decision to aggregate the costs of replying
to the requests you had submitted up to that date, (reference numbers:
810004107, 810004211, 810004212, 810004213, 810004246, 810004247,
810004248, 810004249, 810004250, 810004251 and 810004252) or if you wanted
to withdraw the previous requests as you had submitted a further one.
(reference 810004295) You have not responded to our request for
clarification of how you wished to proceed.
We also responded to another request you had made, reference 810004293 on
18 August. We gave you the information you requested. In response to that
you wrote to us on 22 August:
"Do you think you can actually do the job you are employed to do instead
of looking for excuses to cover up the illegal acts continually being
carried out by HARINGEY Social Services?"
On 24^th August you submitted another FOI request, as follows:
"How many times have your staff had complaints / Court proceedings against
them for harassing anyone who complains about them or disagrees with what
they do?
How many times have HARINGEY staff harassed someone who has submitted FOI
requests that they do not want to reply to?
(YOU CAN ADD ME TO THE LIST - so that is a start - 1 so far)."
This has been logged as request reference 810004308.
I can inform you that we do not hold the information you have requested in
the first question. The answer to your second question is that we do not
`harass' people who submit FOI requests. There is no such list which you
have volunteered to add yourself to. This is our formal response to that
enquiry.
Having reviewed our recent correspondence with you, and from comments you
have made on other requests on the `What Do They Know' website, we believe
you are acting as part of a campaign against Haringey Council connected
with a matter which is currently going through the court process. Given
this I am notifying you that we now consider the requests you have
submitted (and would be likely to consider any further requests from you)
as being vexatious under Section 14 (1) of the Freedom of Information
Act.
We will not respond to any requests we consider to be vexatious. This now
applies to the following requests from you: reference numbers: 810004107,
810004211, 810004212, 810004213, 810004246, 810004247, 810004248,
810004249, 810004250, 810004251 and 810004252 and 810004295. We have
tried to engage with you but have been responded to with rude and
offensive comments from you both to individual officers and also directed
against Haringey Council, and which we note are also in the public arena
as your correspondence with us is through the `What Do They Know
Website'. Should this continue we may ask the website administrators to
remove such comments.
If you are unhappy with how we have dealt with your request and wish to
make a complaint, please contact the Feedback and Information Team as
below. (Please note you should do this within two months of receiving this
response.)
Feedback and Information Team
River Park House
225 High Road
N22 8HQ
Telephone: 020 8489 2550
Email: [email address]
You may also complain to the Information Commissioner's office, who may be
able to help you. However they would normally expect the local authority
to have undertaken a complaint investigation or Internal Review of the
request before they will accept the referral. You can contact the
Commissioner at:
Postal address: Information Commissioner
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Phone help line: 0845 6306060, or 01625 545745
Fax: 01625 545510
Website: www.ico.gov.uk
Regards,
S Dyos
Senior Feedback & Information Officer
Feedback and Information Team
Haringey Council
Dear FOI,
Please let me explain.
I am surprised you consider my request vexatious, given the fact that YOUR employees MADE UNLAWFUL referrals to UK SOCIAL SERVICES and have made fraudulant claims against me.
You know, as well as I do, for me to make a complaint against your Department would be a waste of both our time as you EMPLOY various illegal personnel to ensure NO COMPLAINTS are duly LEGALLY fulfilled as they should be, and your Department continue to create / fabricate whatever is deemed necessary to ensure your LIES are not exposed.
IT IS HARINGEY who are acting in a malicious, nasty, fraudulant and dis-honest way towards me - not the other way around; I include [Name removed due to potential defamation] from your Legal Department in this. Interferring with Witnesses, is ILLEGAL, as I am certain she should know.
Yours sincerely
Kay Young
B.A & B.Sc (Hons) OPEN
K.Y left an annotation ()
Dear Freedom of Information Adviser
Further to the correspondence in regard of the information I have previously requested previously.
Please find below a ruling, which I am sure you will agree categorically states receiving information is a Human Right. It is encompassed within the Human Rights Act.
Yours sincerely
Kay Young
B.A & B.Sc (Hons)OPEN
http://www.freedominfo.org/2009/04/europ...
European Court of Human Rights: Right to Information Essential to Free Expression
14 April 2009
Társaság a Szabadságjogokért v. Hungary a Landmark Decision in the Right to Know
Strasbourg, France — In a landmark decision today, the European Court of Human Rights of the Council of Europe found in favor of Társaság a Szabadságjogokért, the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union, in its complaint against the Hungarian government over a submission to the Hungarian Constitutional Court filed by a member of parliament concerning drug policy. This is the first time the European Court of Human Rights has unanimously recognized that freedom of expression, as mandated by Article 10 of the European Convention of Human Rights, also includes the right to information from public bodies.
Like the Inter-American Court decision Reyes v. Chile, the European Court of Human Rights has affirmed that the right to information is essential to free expression. Because the government holds the “information monopoly,” according to the Court’s decision, “the law cannot allow arbitrary restrictions which may become a form of indirect censorship.”
According to its press release, the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union “wanted to form an opinion on the particulars of the [MPs] complaint before a decision was handed down.” In denying the information, the Hungarian Government evoked the privacy rights of the MP who submitted his views of drug policy to the Hungarian Constitutional Court.
But the Court found that the private life of the MP was not relevant to the disclosure or denial of the information and proscribed a balance of personal privacy rights against the right to information. In the opinion of the Court, “it would be fatal for freedom of expression in the sphere of politics if public figures could censor the press and public debate in the name of their personality rights.”
Even though the ruling is a positive step, Executive Director of Access Info Europe Helen Darbishire notes that “This ruling is a cautious confirmation that the right of access to information is a human right.”
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K.Y left an annotation ()
Dear Freedom of Information Officer
Apologies - for the naming of an employee.
I would like to express my apologies to that employee also.
Yours sincerely
Kay Young
B.A & B.Sc (Hons) OPEN