Nominations for the #eCaseFOIAwards are now open! John Edwards @infocommission.bsky.social shares why it's so important to nominate. Nominate now at ecasefoiawards.co.uk #FOIA #IDUAI #AccessToInfoDay #FOIA #eCaseFOIAwards

📢FOI in the News! The government is considering leaving the Aarhus Convention, which allows groups to judicially review environmentally damaging proposals without massive costs if they lose. www.theguardian.com/politics/202... #Aarhus #EIR #informationrights #transparency

📢FOI in the News! 'An almost ubiquitous culture of aggressive door-knocking by male soldiers demanding sex with female colleagues'. The British Army is accused of suppressing a report from campaigners about the full extent of assaults within barracks. www.thetimes.com/article/2318...

🚨Reminder: FOI Requester Training 🚨 Looking for an introduction, or a refresher on FOI? We know how impenetrable the process can seem. Join us for a zoom masterclass from our Director Maurice Frankel on Thursday 16th October from 10am to 4pm. Sign up details here www.cfoi.org.uk/2025/08/usin...

The Scot Parliament’s SPPA Committee is consulting on the FoI Reform Bill. They want 2 hear ur views by 22 October 2025 so a great opportunity to declare your support for better enforceable FoI rights. yourviews.parliament.scot/sppa/freedom... @foi.scot @KatySClark @nujscotland.bsky.social

📢FOI in the news! TfL abandons Low Traffic Neighbourhood study after unpublished results showed they increased cycling but did not reduce car use according to FOI disclosures obtained by the Times (paywall). www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar... #TfL #LTNs #joinCFOI #transparency #accountability

Q2 2024-2025 Government FOI Statistics Central government FOI statistics for April to June 2025 are out and show the highest number of requests in a quarter since 2019 coupled with a significant reduction in delays. www.gov.uk/government/s...

🚨Reminder: CFOI invites both beginners and experienced requesters to our next online training course on Thursday 16th October 2025. Please see this link to secure your space www.cfoi.org.uk/2025/08/usin...

⚖️ Information Tribunal Ruling ⚖️ A request for any correspondence “from” a specified official about a particular matter included information to that official in the same email chain, the First-tier Tribunal (FTT) has ruled. beta.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKF...

🚨Learn how to craft effective FOI requests with confidence! On Thursday 16th October from 10:00 to 16:00, we will be running an online course both for those new to FOI and those who wants to make more effective requests. Please see this link for more detail www.cfoi.org.uk/foi-training/

Operation Duet: ‘No Information Held’ response defies National Policing Standards. neilwilby.com/2025/09/08/o...

🚨 Exclusive: APPG bankrolled by Israeli arms cash shuts down A cross-party parliamentary group has disbanded after taking money from a state-owned Israeli arms company — exposing a “glaring” loophole in lobbying rules. New on Democracy for Sale: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/controvers...

Learn how to make an effective #FOIA request. Limited places are still available for our next training session on Thursday 16th October May. Register now at: www.cfoi.org.uk/2025/08/usin...

Highly recommended! A film about the extraordinary courage shown by young activists recruited at the LSE and elsewhere to perform high-risk anti-apartheid operations.

📢 Do you want to learn how to use the Freedom of Information Act or make better requests under it? If so, we are running a training course for requesters on Thursday 16th October 2025 from 10:00-16:00 by Zoom. Please follow this link for more detail: www.cfoi.org.uk/2025/08/usin...

Happening this Wednesday and what an excellent line up!

📢FOI in the News! BBC FOI disclosures find that 20 out of 39 police forces continue to use the Dash (Domestic Abuse, Stalking, Harassment and Honour Based Violence) risk assessment despite expert consensus over its flaws. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #domesticabuse #transparency #accountability

Revealed: “Skyrocketing” scale of UK police's Secret Facial Recognition Searches of Passport and Immigration Databases. privacyinternational.org/news-analysi... #facialrecognition #joinCFOI #transparency #accountability

No 10 bans civil servants from speaking, bans us from seeing the guidance that bans civil servants from speaking gavin-freeguard.medium.com/no-10-bans-c...

BBC FOI disclosures reveal 49 separate data breaches in the past four years at the unit handling relocation applications from Afghans seeking safety in the UK. #Afghandatabreach #joinCFOI #transparency #accountability www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Almost half of those arrested for race hate disorder in Belfast last August had previously been reported to the PSNI for domestic abuse, according to #FOI

🚨 New: The UK government spent £32,251 fighting to hide a blank form. Yep - 30 grand plus to avoid releasing a blank template of the ministerial interests form. A wild story - with a surprise twist. Would read to end of this one... 🙄 (🧵) democracyforsale.substack.com/p/why-did-ta...

Join the fight against official secrecy. The Campaign for Freedom of Information has been fighting against official secrecy since 1984 and we need your help #supportCFOI buff.ly/411ruZQ

⚖️ Help Close FOl Loophole ⚖️ We're pushing for public sector contractors to be brought under the FOI Act. Has an authority ever refused you information about the performance of a contract saying it 'does not hold' the information? Does a contractor hold it? If so, let us know at [email protected]

Exciting line up!

The government has been issued with an unprecedented formal rebuke by transparency watchdog the ICO for wrongly interfering to block a freedom of information request from The Times about Suella Braverman's private email use. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

David Erdos: The UK Information Commissioner’s Annual Report 2024/25: Surveying a Systematic Trend Away from Adequate Enforcement ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/07/22/d...

🚨Final reminder🚨 Last chance to join our online Advanced FOI Case Law Course this Wednesday - led by the Campaign for Freedom of Information. Deep dive into the rulings shaping your right to know! Please see here for details on how to join: www.cfoi.org.uk/2025/06/info...

⚖️ Advanced training course for senior FOI practitioners! ⚖️ Join CFOI on Wednesday 23rd July at 09.45am for an expert led session— designed specifically for those navigating complex FOI requests, appeals, and decisions. For how to join please follow this link: www.cfoi.org.uk/2025/06/info...

📢FOI in the news! A Helen Bamber Foundation investigation reveals that 56% of lone child asylum seekers were wrongly assessed as adults last year and placed in accommodation which forced them to share rooms with adult strangers. #HelenBamberFoundation #joinCFOI #transparency #accountability

⚖️ Join us online on Wednesday 23rd July 2025 at 09.45am to explore the world of advanced Freedom of Information case law. Places are still available and can be secured via this link! www.cfoi.org.uk/2025/06/info... #joinCFOI #transparency #accountability #FOI #FreedomofInformation

Freedom of Information requests are informing the public debate on disability benefits: www.mysociety.org/2025/07/08/h... Photo: Roger Blackwell (CC by/2.0) #FOI #PIP

My latest blog on Relight My FOIA. How one email from Dominic Cummings highlights a massive loophole in trasparency law. relightmyfoia.blog/2025/07/06/t...

Our next training course on advanced FOI case law is scheduled for Wednesday 23rd July via Zoom - please see the following link to book your place! www.cfoi.org.uk/2025/06/info... #joinCFOI #transparency #accountability

Great round-up here from @alexparsons.bsky.social at mySociety about when FOI may prove more useful than parliamentary questions. #mySociety #joinCFOI #accountability #transparency

Palantir - the controversial US spytech firm is back in FOI news with the National Police Chiefs' Council telling UK forces to keep quiet about software contracts. Also, former Mid and East Antrim Borough Council CEO, Anne Donaghy, is prosecuted on three counts under FOI and other legislation.

More excellent reporting here from Democracy for Sale!

Our next online FOI case law course covering recent Tribunal decisions is on 23rd July 2025. It is aimed at helping experienced FOI practitioners keep abreast of recent developments in the way FOIA is being applied. For more details, please visit our website. www.cfoi.org.uk/2025/06/info...

📢 Master the latest in advanced FOI case law! Do you want to stay ahead of the latest and most significant FOI decisions? The Campaign for Freedom of Information’s next Case Law Updating course will take place on July 23 2025, from 9.45 am to 1 pm. www.cfoi.org.uk/2025/06/info...

The latest FOI stats show that in the first quarter of 2025 the Foreign Office still had an appalling problem of delay in its FOI responses, missing the legal deadline in 35% of cases, much worse than any other govt dept.

Hundreds of pandemic fraud cases are at risk of collapsing because the investigating officials were gathering evidence without the legal right to do so. An FOI shows officials at Thurrock Council based Natis were not correctly certified to do this work. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

🚨 New: 'Shocking' scale of Labour’s Big Tech ties In its first 6 months, Labour ministers and top officials met with tech giants an average of *six times a week.* We’ve got the documents. 🧵 New on Democracy for Sale with @lucasamin.bsky.social democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-s...

The Information Tribunal has ruled that the Hinkley Point C construction company is a public authority for the purposes of the Environmental Information Regulations (a parallel access regime to the FOI Act). On my personal blog: informationrightsandwrongs.com/2025/06/06/h...

A good example of why a refused FOI request can still be a story

📢FOI in the news! Prisoners freed without tags because of ‘unacceptable’ Serco backlog. This article is behind a paywall at thetimes.com. Please note that access to the full content requires a subscription. www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art... #Serco #joinCFOI #accountability #transparency

📢FOI in the news! Elon Musk’s Department for Government Efficiency (DOGE) axes entire Freedom of Information team at the US disease control agency the CDC. #ElonMusk #DOGE #joinCFOI #accountability #transparency www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

🔴 Remember Aria, the “moonshot" research agency dreamed up by Dominic Cummings? It's funded by £800m in public money but exempt from FOI laws We decided to fight for transparency... and we won 🎉 New on Democracy for Sale w/ @lucasamin.bsky.social democracyforsale.substack.com/p/dominic-cu...

📢FOI in the News! Thousands of trafficking victims reject government support for fear of deportation according to new FOI data obtained by the Observer and anti-slavery charity After Exploitation. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... #Refugees #HomeOffice #joinCFOI #accountability

📢FOI in the News! BBC investigation shines new light on the scale of Britain’s toxic industrial legacy. Nine out of ten potentially contaminated waste disposal sites have never been checked! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #CorbyMothers #ToxicTown #joinCFOI #transparency #accountability