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== WhatDoTheyKnow stuff ==
== WhatDoTheyKnow stuff ==
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* [[Adapting WDTK for New Zealand]]
* [[Adapting WDTK for New Zealand]]
* [[Adapting WDTK for Ireland]]
* [[Adapting WDTK for Ireland]]
 
* [[UK Border Agency standard email reply]]
* [[Local Authority FOI statistics]]
* [[ICO policy documents: Line to Take]]
* [[WDTK refusals due to copyright/re-use regs]]
* Note to self:  Data for NHS orgs - [http://www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/systemsandservices/data/ods practices & codes]
* [[FOI repository websites]]
* [[First-Tier Tribunal (Information Rights) current cases]]
* [[WhatDoTheyKnow - How to make a FOI request]]


== Trying out Semantic Mediawiki stuff ==
== Trying out Semantic Mediawiki stuff ==


* I installed the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_Bundle Semantic Bundle] for Mediawiki to:
* I installed the [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_Bundle Semantic Bundle] for Mediawiki to:
** host a local non-PDF copy of the ICO & IT decision text & metadata.  Google isn't allowed to spider the IT website decisions...
** host local non-PDF copies of the ICO & IT decision text & metadata.  Google isn't allowed to spider the IT website decisions...
** be able to automatically re-use this data in other pages (eg the FOIA Exemption pages)  
** be able to automatically re-use this data in other pages (eg the FOIA Exemption pages) using Functions
 
* Starting with a couple of ICO decisions:
* [[FER0220492]]
* [[FER0269464]]
 
TODO:
 
 
* Case Ref: FER0276297
* Date: 19/04/2010
* Public Authority: City of Westminster Council
* Summary: The complainant requested the names and addresses of the City of Westminster Council’s (the council’s) top 1,000 pre-paid bag clients under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR). The council initially responded by withholding the information under Regulation 12(5)(e) of the EIR. However, following the internal review it responded by stating that it had incorrectly applied the EIR and the relevant legislation was the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the Act). Accordingly, the council considered the request under the Act and withheld the information under section 43(2) stating that its disclosure could prejudice its commercial interests. The Commissioner invited the council to reconsider the request under the EIR but the council maintained that the information requested was not environmental and reiterated its reliance on section 43(2) of the Act. The Commissioner finds that the information requested is environmental and therefore exempt under section 39 of the Act. Accordingly, the request should have been dealt with under the EIR. The Commissioner therefore requires the council to reconsider the request under the EIR and to either disclose the information to the complainant in accordance with Regulation 5 or issue a refusal notice under Regulation 14.
* Section of Act/EIR & Finding: FOI 39 - Complaint Not upheld , EIR 5 - Complaint Upheld , EIR 14(2) - Complaint Upheld , EIR 14(3) - Complaint Upheld
* View PDF of Decision Notice FER0276297 http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/decisionnotices/2010/fer_0276297.pdf


* Case Ref: FS50212107
* ICO decisions can now be directly linked to, eg:
* Date: 14/04/2010
:* [[FER0220492]]
* Public Authority: Financial Services Authority
:* [[FER0269464]]
* Summary: The complainant requested information from the Financial Services Authority (FSA) on cases where a regulated firm had amended or withdrawn a financial promotion after discussions with or intervention by the FSA. The FSA refused to disclose any of the requested information by virtue of the exemption in section 31 (law enforcement) of the Act and in addition stated the exemption in section 44 (‘prohibitions on disclosure’) applied to some of the requested information. During the course of the Commissioner’s investigation the FSA added that the exemption at section 43 (commercial interests) applied to all of the requested information. The Commissioner has investigated and found that all of the requested information was exempt by virtue of section 44 of the Act. In view of this finding the Commissioner has not considered the application of sections 31 or 43 to the requested information.
* Section of Act/EIR & Finding: FOI 17 - Complaint Upheld , FOI 44 - Complaint Not upheld
* View PDF of Decision Notice FS50212107 http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/decisionnotices/2010/fs_50212107.pdf


* Case Ref: FS50229617
* 30/04 - now have a form to add in decisions: [[Form:DNSummaryBox]]
* Date: 19/04/2010
* 30/04 - and a category for them: [[:Category:ICO_Decision_Notice]]
* Public Authority: Borough of Poole Council
* 01/05 - they're now all uploaded, but [[:Special:ImportCSV]] doesn't seem to support importing multiple templates which means that only 1 decision has been added.  may look to  denormalise relationship between DN & 1-many Decisions, ie into single template.
* Summary: The complainant requested information concerning the results of a job evaluation process which the Council had undertaken. The Council refused the request citing section 40(2) of the Act. The Commissioner has investigated and decided that section 40(2) is not engaged and accordingly has ordered the release of the information. The Commissioner also found that the Council failed to meet the requirements of sections 1(1)(b) and 10(1) of the Act.
* 01/05 - ick. re-generated all the ICO data as xml, but found a bug in ImportXml (due to way it implements php's xml_set_character_data_handler and it barfs on ampersands "&" in the XML....
* Section of Act/EIR & Finding: FOI 10 - Complaint Upheld , FOI 40 - Complaint Upheld
* [[DNFindingLookup]] - page to hold DNFinding > DNSubFinding mappings to make searches easier
* View PDF of Decision Notice FS50229617 http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/decisionnotices/2010/fs_50229617.pdf
* 03/05 - more bugs found in the importxml - it skips long strings, £ signs, etc...  Leaving it as it is for the time being (I've reported the bugs to the dev) - the only thing wrong with the ICO data loaded is the Summary text. All the rest is OK, so good enough for searches & display of the main case data on other screens.
* [[/scratchpad]]
* 05/05 - have discovered that CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE privilege required for bits of SMW... Checking with hosting co if they can grant. (see [[:Special:UnusedProperties]] for example of error message.  This causes problems with searching by sub-property or sub-category...
* 06/05 - http://www.web-mania.com support have come up trumps and have granted me the privs :-)  Sub-properties now included in FOI Exemption pages.
* 15/05 - re-imported ICO DNs via ImportCSV, using the workaround specified [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:Data_Transfer#Multiple_templates_.26_ImportCSV here].  This fixed the Date bug & the truncation issues.


* Case Ref: FS50229762
=== TODO ===
* Date: 19/04/2010
* Public Authority: Ministry of Justice
* Summary: The complainant requested information that would document that the Information Tribunal (the “Tribunal”) has wide powers under Rule 14(1) of the Information Tribunal (Enforcement Appeals) Rules 2005. The Commissioner is satisfied that the Tribunal does not hold this information and therefore does not require the authority to take any steps. However, he has found that the Tribunal breached sections 1(1)(a), 10(1) and 16(1) in its handling of the request.
* Section of Act/EIR & Finding: FOI 1 - Complaint Upheld , FOI 10 - Complaint Upheld , FOI 16 - Complaint Upheld
* View PDF of Decision Notice FS50229762 http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/decisionnotices/2010/fs_50229762.pdf


* Case Ref: FS50237887
* '''TODO NOW'''
* Date: 08/04/2010
::* need exemption pages for EIR & add in decisions - nearly done
* Public Authority: Eastleigh Borough Council
::* page to introduce the ICO DNs
* Summary: The complainant requested various pieces of information regarding Eastleigh Borough Council’s (the ‘Council’) investigation into working practices at the former employer of a now deceased individual. The Council disclosed some of the requested information, stated that some of the information was not held, and applied section 41(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the “Act”) to other information and refused to confirm or deny whether it was held. During the Commissioner’s investigation the Council clarified that it was no longer seeking to rely on section 41(2) of the Act but applied section 41(1) to the withheld information. The Commissioner has determined that, on the balance of probabilities, the Council holds no further information and that the withheld information is exempt under section 41(1) of the Act. The Commissioner identified procedural breaches in the way in which the Council handled the request but does not require the Council to take any steps. The Commissioner also identified that some of the withheld information was likely to be the personal data of the complainant and this matter is being dealt with separately by the Commissioner.
::* add links to other relevant ICO decisions for other FOI clauses (eg s19, 16) etc which aren't specific exemptions, and there have been DNs for these. Done: 16, 17, 19.  Todo: 6, 9, 45, 50, 13, 11, 10, 1.
* Section of Act/EIR & Finding: FOI 10 - Complaint Upheld , FOI 17 - Complaint Upheld , FOI 41 - Complaint Not upheld
::* include a source reference & link to copyright / re-use statement
* View PDF of Decision Notice FS50237887 http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/decisionnotices/2010/fs_50237887.pdf


* Case Ref: FS50241186
* '''TODO NEXT'''
* Date: 26/04/2010
::* Information Tribunal cases
* Public Authority: St Neots Town Council
::* links between appeals on foiwiki & their assoc WDTK requests, meta-requests
* Summary: The complainant requested a copy of a report held by St Neots Town Council (“the Council”) concerning an incident in November 2007 in St Neots involving the Christmas light display. The Council provided a copy of the report with redactions and it also withheld all the appendices to the report. It stated that it wished to rely on the exemption under section 43(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (“the FOIA”) and it also referred to section 7(5) of the Data Protection Act 1998 (“the DPA”). During its internal review, the Council also cited section 41(1). It did not explain why any of the exemptions applied and it did not address the public interest test relevant to section 43(2). During the Information Commissioner’s (“the Commissioner”) investigation, the Council sought to rely on section 42(1) and section 43(2) of the FOIA. The Commissioner investigated and agreed that the withheld information was exempt under section 42(1) because it was covered by Legal Professional Privilege. He found that the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighed the public interest in disclosing the information in all the circumstances of the case. He also found that the Council breached section 17(1), 17(1)(b), 17(1)(c) and 17(3)(b).
::* links from appeals to WDTK requests made from non-related people asking for info released from decision, eg Ganesh, Matthew Davis, etc.
* Section of Act/EIR & Finding: FOI 17 - Complaint Upheld , FOI 42 - Complaint Not upheld
* View PDF of Decision Notice FS50241186 http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/decisionnotices/2010/fs_50241186.pdf


* Case Ref: FS50244267
* '''TODO LATER'''
* Date: 26/04/2010
::* SIC cases
* Public Authority: Richmond Adult Community College
::* Court of session cases
* Summary: The complainant made a request to Richmond Adult Community College (the “College”) on 26 March 2009 for minutes of meetings for the year 2007. The College refused the request for information as it deemed the request vexatious under section 14 of the Act and furthermore stated that to comply with the request would exceed the cost limit under section 12 of the Act. The College took into account a series of events leading up to the request on 26 March 2009, and deemed this request vexatious under section 14(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the “Act”). The Commissioner has considered this request in the context and background in which it was made and has decided that the College correctly applied section 14(1) of the Act.
::* Full text (ie non-PDF) of ICO cases
* Section of Act/EIR & Finding: FOI 14 - Complaint Not upheld
* View PDF of Decision Notice FS50244267 http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/decisionnotices/2010/fs_50244267.pdf


* Case Ref: FS50249189
* '''DONE'''
* Date: 19/04/2010
::* template should be top-left aligned
* Public Authority: Derbyshire County Council
::* look to format template dates to dd/mm/yyyy rather than d M Y
* Summary: The complainant requested the Council to answer a number of questions and to release information concerning his late mother’s care, which is held in his late mother’s social services records. The Council responded releasing copies of the deceased’s social services records with a number of redactions. It withheld information relating to the complainant’s brother and sisters, as it considered this information to be third party personal data. It also chose to withhold a number of documents under the Act, as it felt these documents were legally professionally privileged. Although no specific exemptions were cited by the Council, the Commissioner has considered whether sections 40(2) and 41(1) of the Act apply to the remaining information. The Commissioner concluded that the remaining information should be withheld under sections 40(2) and 41(1) of the Act.
::* "partly upheld" (are there other non-standard ones? no) - add to infobox template & highlight as such
* Section of Act/EIR & Finding: FOI 17 - Complaint Upheld , FOI 40 - Complaint Not upheld , FOI 41 - Complaint Not upheld
::* bug in [[EIR 12(3)]] DNs - the P doesn't appear for [[FER0184525]] - seemed to resolve itself...
* View PDF of Decision Notice FS50249189 http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/decisionnotices/2010/fs_50249189.pdf
::* findings to be rolled up correctly in #ask search eg 14.1 > 14.
::* give max last_updated date for when DNs were uploaded/added to foiwiki
::* re-populate data to fix decision_summary truncated data & date bug fixes
::* fix date bug - decision notice dates dd/mm/yyyy (d/m/Y) are being silently converted to M d Y in some cases eg 12/05/2008 => 5 December 2008.  Workaround seems to be to re-import the dates in Excel format d mmmm yyyy eg "2 June 2010" - dates get correctly parsed.
::* Search redirects for joint/multiple DNs - eg create redirects from [[FER0098306]] and [[FER0098307]] to [[FER0098306/7]]

Latest revision as of 17:15, 30 May 2011

My FOI requests

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/user/alex_skene

WhatDoTheyKnow stuff

Trying out Semantic Mediawiki stuff

  • I installed the Semantic Bundle for Mediawiki to:
    • host local non-PDF copies of the ICO & IT decision text & metadata. Google isn't allowed to spider the IT website decisions...
    • be able to automatically re-use this data in other pages (eg the FOIA Exemption pages) using Functions
  • ICO decisions can now be directly linked to, eg:
  • 30/04 - now have a form to add in decisions: Form:DNSummaryBox
  • 30/04 - and a category for them: Category:ICO_Decision_Notice
  • 01/05 - they're now all uploaded, but Special:ImportCSV doesn't seem to support importing multiple templates which means that only 1 decision has been added. may look to denormalise relationship between DN & 1-many Decisions, ie into single template.
  • 01/05 - ick. re-generated all the ICO data as xml, but found a bug in ImportXml (due to way it implements php's xml_set_character_data_handler and it barfs on ampersands "&" in the XML....
  • DNFindingLookup - page to hold DNFinding > DNSubFinding mappings to make searches easier
  • 03/05 - more bugs found in the importxml - it skips long strings, £ signs, etc... Leaving it as it is for the time being (I've reported the bugs to the dev) - the only thing wrong with the ICO data loaded is the Summary text. All the rest is OK, so good enough for searches & display of the main case data on other screens.
  • /scratchpad
  • 05/05 - have discovered that CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE privilege required for bits of SMW... Checking with hosting co if they can grant. (see Special:UnusedProperties for example of error message. This causes problems with searching by sub-property or sub-category...
  • 06/05 - http://www.web-mania.com support have come up trumps and have granted me the privs :-) Sub-properties now included in FOI Exemption pages.
  • 15/05 - re-imported ICO DNs via ImportCSV, using the workaround specified here. This fixed the Date bug & the truncation issues.

TODO

  • TODO NOW
  • need exemption pages for EIR & add in decisions - nearly done
  • page to introduce the ICO DNs
  • add links to other relevant ICO decisions for other FOI clauses (eg s19, 16) etc which aren't specific exemptions, and there have been DNs for these. Done: 16, 17, 19. Todo: 6, 9, 45, 50, 13, 11, 10, 1.
  • include a source reference & link to copyright / re-use statement
  • TODO NEXT
  • Information Tribunal cases
  • links between appeals on foiwiki & their assoc WDTK requests, meta-requests
  • links from appeals to WDTK requests made from non-related people asking for info released from decision, eg Ganesh, Matthew Davis, etc.
  • TODO LATER
  • SIC cases
  • Court of session cases
  • Full text (ie non-PDF) of ICO cases
  • DONE
  • template should be top-left aligned
  • look to format template dates to dd/mm/yyyy rather than d M Y
  • "partly upheld" (are there other non-standard ones? no) - add to infobox template & highlight as such
  • bug in EIR 12(3) DNs - the P doesn't appear for FER0184525 - seemed to resolve itself...
  • findings to be rolled up correctly in #ask search eg 14.1 > 14.
  • give max last_updated date for when DNs were uploaded/added to foiwiki
  • re-populate data to fix decision_summary truncated data & date bug fixes
  • fix date bug - decision notice dates dd/mm/yyyy (d/m/Y) are being silently converted to M d Y in some cases eg 12/05/2008 => 5 December 2008. Workaround seems to be to re-import the dates in Excel format d mmmm yyyy eg "2 June 2010" - dates get correctly parsed.
  • Search redirects for joint/multiple DNs - eg create redirects from FER0098306 and FER0098307 to FER0098306/7
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