Technical construction files relating to all cctv cameras used for enforcement purposes
Dear Newham Borough Council,
Please provide copies (redacted for privilege or commercially sensitive material if necessary) of any technical construction files held by the council relating to all CCTV cameras used for issuing Penalty Charge Notices in your borough (normally by way of enforcement of bus lanes and/or parking and/or moving traffic violations.
Please provide this in an electronic format, preferably pdf.
Yours faithfully,
Stephen Baker
REQUESTER REFERENCE: C8763
ENQUIRY REFERENCE: E17609
Please quote your references when contacting the Council.
Dear Sir/Madam,
Freedom of Information Act 2000
Thank you for your request for information received on 09/12/2013. We are dealing with your request and plan to respond before 09/01/2014.
If you have any queries or concerns, please contact the Information Governance Team on 020 8430 3737 or email us at: [email address]
Yours Faithfully
Information Governance Team
Newham Council
Newham Council Publication Scheme is on: www.newham.gov.uk
Dear Newham Borough Council,
The replies to my FoI request were due yesterday, 9 January 2014. Please provide them by return or alternatively, give a reason for the delay. Thank you.
Yours faithfully,
Steve Baker
Dear Mr Baker,
We attach our response under the disclosure provisions of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.
If you require any further information please do not hesitate to contact a
member of our team on (020) 8430 2000 or email us at
[1][email address].
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satisfactorily you may initially complain to us and then to the
Information Commissioner's Office. The Information Commissioner would
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legislation. Therefore, to enable us to deal with your enquiry more
efficiently, we have introduced an online form. We would ask that you
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you can view our Publication Scheme, a list of previous requests and
responses and/or use our E-Form should you wish to make further requests:
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Yours faithfully,
Information Governance
London Borough of Newham
Newham Dockside, 1000 Dockside Road, London E16 2QU
Tel: 020 8430 2000
Fax: 020 8430 1504
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Dear Newham Borough Council,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Newham Borough Council's handling of my FOI request 'Technical construction files relating to all cctv cameras used for enforcement purposes'.
I did not ask to see commercially sensitive or privileged information and was very specific about this in my request. I fully accept that some information contained in the TCF will need to be redacted, particularly in light of the fact that I have seen properly redacted TCFs as supplied by other local authorities.
However, I cannot agree that everything in the TCF is either subject to privilege or is commercially sensitive and I maintain that this can be disclosed without compromising the authority's obligations to its contractor. For example there will be information concerning makes and models of cameras being used, dates of deployment, locations of cameras, dates of decommissioning, and dates of VCA approval/certification of cameras, none of which is commercially sensitive, particularly bearing in mind the the specifications for cctv cameras are published on the maker's own websites.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/t...
Yours faithfully,
Stephen Baker
Good Afternoon
Many thanks for your email.
We shall now conduct an internal review into the response originally provided to your request under E17609.
Kind regards
Information Governance
London Borough of Newham
Newham Dockside, 1000 Dockside Road, London E16 2QU
Dear Mr Baker,
We attach our response under the disclosure provisions of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.
If you require any further information please do not hesitate to contact a
member of our team on (020) 8430 2000 or email us at
[1][email address].
Alternatively, if you believe we have not dealt with your request
satisfactorily you may initially complain to us and then to the
Information Commissioner's Office. The Information Commissioner would
expect you to have given the Council the opportunity to deal with your
appeal prior to you contacting them. Please see guidance on the Freedom of
Information Appeals page:
[2]http://www.newham.gov.uk/YourCouncil/Fre...
As with other local authorities, the number of enquiries has increased
each year since the introduction of the Freedom of Information
legislation. Therefore, to enable us to deal with your enquiry more
efficiently, we have introduced an online form. We would ask that you
submit all future requests via our online form:
[3]https://forms.newham.gov.uk/AF3/an/defau...
In addition, you may find it useful to access the following link, where
you can view our Publication Scheme, a list of previous requests and
responses and/or use our E-Form should you wish to make further requests:
[4]http://www.newham.gov.uk/YourCouncil/Fre...
Yours faithfully,
Information Governance
London Borough of Newham
Newham Dockside, 1000 Dockside Road, London E16 2QU
Tel: 020 8430 2000
Fax: 020 8430 1504
══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
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of Newham.
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policies of the Council. The unauthorised use, disclosure, copying or
alteration of this communication and any attachments is forbidden. This
communication and any attachments are intended for the addressee only and
may be confidential. If this has come to you in error you should
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You should take no action based on it or copy or show it to anyone and
telephone the Council immediately with any issues on 020 8430 2000 or any
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actually virus free and should run current anti-virus software. Please
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Action may be taken against any malicious and deliberate attempts to
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The information contained in this email maybe subject to public disclosure
under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Unless the information is
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reply cannot be guaranteed.
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Dear Newham Borough Council,
Thank you for your reply dated 18 February 2014 which I note is little more than a copy (with paragraphs in a different order) of the replies to my original FoI request. Please confirm a date by which I will receive replies in relation to my request for an internal review.
You can view a full chronology of my request here:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/t...
Thank you.
Yours faithfully,
Stephen Baker
Good Afternoon
Please find attached the response to the Internal Review conducted by the Head of Service.
Kind regards
Information Governance
London Borough of Newham
Newham Dockside, 1000 Dockside Road, London E16 2QU
William Knottenbelt left an annotation ()
Another disappointing "review" from Newham. I was thinking perhaps you should ask for records of the dates of submissions of the technical construction files to the VCA and the result of the submission in terms of whether or not the file was accepted and approved by the VCA or rejected? And if the submission was rejected, a short reason for the rejection of the file. Emails between Newham and the VCA do show a disturbing inability by Newham to get very much if anything approved:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/r...
Dear Mr Baker,
We attach our response to your Appeal under the disclosure provisions of
the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
If you require any further information please do not hesitate to contact a
member of our team on (020) 8430 2000 or email us at
[1][email address].
As with other local authorities, the number of enquiries has increased
each year since the introduction of the Freedom of Information
legislation. Therefore, to enable us to deal with your enquiry more
efficiently, we have introduced an online form. We would ask that you
submit all future requests via our online form:
[2]https://forms.newham.gov.uk/AF3/an/defau...
In addition, you may find it useful to access the following link, where
you can view our Publication Scheme, a list of previous requests and
responses and/or use our E-Form should you wish to make further requests:
[3]http://www.newham.gov.uk/YourCouncil/Fre...
Yours faithfully,
Information Governance
London Borough of Newham
Newham Dockside, 1000 Dockside Road, London E16 2QU
Tel: 020 8430 2000
Fax: 020 8430 1504
══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════
NOTE: This communication is sent for and on behalf of the London Borough
of Newham.
However the views expressed within it are not necessarily the views or
policies of the Council. The unauthorised use, disclosure, copying or
alteration of this communication and any attachments is forbidden. This
communication and any attachments are intended for the addressee only and
may be confidential. If this has come to you in error you should
immediately permanently destroy it.
You should take no action based on it or copy or show it to anyone and
telephone the Council immediately with any issues on 020 8430 2000 or any
other number provided in the communication. Please note that electronic
communication is not considered a secure medium for sending information
and therefore maybe at risk.
We advise that you understand and accept this lack of security when using
this form of communication with us. Although we have taken steps to ensure
that this email and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in
keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are
actually virus free and should run current anti-virus software. Please
note that email may be monitored and checked to safeguard the council
network from viruses, hoax messages or abuse of the Council's systems.
Action may be taken against any malicious and deliberate attempts to
infect the council network.
The information contained in this email maybe subject to public disclosure
under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Unless the information is
legally exempt from disclosure the confidentiality of this email and your
reply cannot be guaranteed.
References
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2. https://forms.newham.gov.uk/AF3/an/defau...
3. http://www.newham.gov.uk/YourCouncil/Fre...
Dear Newham Borough Council,
Thank you for your letter of today's date.
I do not understand the point made concerning the size of the file and the council's inability to send it to me via email. This request is made via Whatdotheyknow, which makes the size of my email inbox of no significance since I will simply download the document when it is published on the Whatdotheyknow site. Consequently please send me the document by return, via Whatdotheyknow. Thank you.
Yours faithfully,
Stephen Baker
Dear Mr Baker,
The issue is that the file being so large sometimes will not allow us to send it via Email. When we sent this document by email to the ICO, it bounced back as undeliverable.
I will try and send it and see what happens.
Martin Gibbs I Head of Complaints and Member Enquiries I
London Borough of Newham
Newham Dockside I 1000 Dockside Road I London E16 2QU
DDI: 020 3373 1251 I Int: 31251
Dear Newham Borough Council,
Thank you for supplying Version 4 (V4) of the TCF. My request was for copies of "any technical construction files held by the council relating to all CCTV cameras used for issuing Penalty Charge Notices in your borough." Version 4 is not the latest version of the TCF held by the council and consequently my request remains unsatisfied. I have written to the ICO accordingly.
Yours faithfully,
Stephen Baker
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Steve Baker left an annotation ()
Complaint sent to ICO 14 April 2014