ICO calls to extend FOI-case time-limits
Sep 13, 2011
Bishop Hill in FOI

The Information Commissioner's Office has just tweeted that the Commissioner himself has just told the parliamentary Justice Committee that the time limit for s77 prosecutions should be extended - this was what let UEA officials off the hook for their Climategate-related FOI breaches.

The commissioner also called for custodial sentences for breaches of the Data Protection Act. In fact, I think custodial sentences should be required for breaches of FOI too. At the moment public bodies don't take the Act very seriously.

 

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