Information on gang association in social housing in Hackney

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Dear Hackney Borough Council,

Multiple public sources indicate that borough-level gang strategies involve information-sharing processes between the police, multi-agency Gangs Units and the council or agencies managing social housing in a borough.

Could you please provide me with information regarding the following:

1. Which agencies have management and oversight of social housing in Hackney?
2. How do borough social housing agencies flag or otherwise mark the addresses of gang-associated individuals in social housing in the borough?
3. How many addresses are currently flagged or otherwise marked in the borough as housing gang-associated individuals?
4. Please list any sources of information that are used when flagging/marking an address as housing an individual who is gang-associated (e.g. The MPS Gangs Matrix, information provided by local Integrated Gangs Unit, etc.)
5. Is the family or individuals concerned provided with any form of notification that their address has been flagged or otherwise marked as gang-associated?
6. Is this information shared with other boroughs?
7. In what way is an individual's 'gang association' factored into decisions about social housing allocation, relocation or eviction?
8. Please share any guidance or documents that assist Housing Officers in making determinations about when to relocate or evict a family based on concerns about public safety.

Yours faithfully,

A Bacciarelli

Hackney Borough Council

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Dear Mr Bacciarelli,

FOI Ref: FOI17-0914-19016

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Dear Mr Bacciarelli

 

Please find attached the response to your Freedom of Information request.

 

Kind regards

Noelle Savory

 

Information Governance Team

Hackney Council

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The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient at
the email address to which it has been addressed. It may not be disclosed
to or used by anyone other than this addressee, nor may it be copied in
any way. If received in error, please contact Hackney Council,
www.hackney.gov.uk on 020 8356 3000 (out of hours - 020 8356 2300) quoting
the name of the sender and the addressee and then delete it from your
system. Please note that neither Hackney Council nor the sender accepts
any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan the
email and attachments (if any). No contracts may be concluded on behalf of
Hackney Council by means of email communications.Please note that Hackney
Council reserves the right to monitor emails for the purpose of monitoring
or communications relevant to the Company’s business under the
Telecommunications (Lawful Business Practice) (Interception Of
Communications) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/2699) ("the Regulations") for
the following reasons: to investigate or detect the unauthorised use of
the systems, e.g. that this policy is being observed, that no
discriminatory or offensive content appears in emails; to maintain an
adequate level of security for our computer systems; to detect any
computer viruses; to check mailboxes of absent employees. To exercise its
right under the Regulations, Hackney Council must have made all reasonable
efforts to inform every person who may use the system that interception
may take place and this notice to you should be regarded as such
notification..

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