Rich Suvner
Skint years RIP
Want to check on activity at my Council. Does anyone have good advice on dos and donts for effective FOI requests for Members and officer correspondence relating to developments?
Just write/email the Council and ask for whatever it is you want. Be specific and clear in your request. The Council will let you have what you are allowed to have.
If it will take the Council more than 18 hours to gather the information they will probably give you some but not all of it!
Which Council btw?
Off the top of my head I think you need to put it in proper writing (letters - remember them?) not email. If it is something that was discussed/decided in a Council meeting the relevant minutes will very likely be on their website if they have one - most do these days even Parish ones.
Want to check on activity at my Council. Does anyone have good advice on dos and donts for effective FOI requests for Members and officer correspondence relating to developments?
Want to check on activity at my Council. Does anyone have good advice on dos and donts for effective FOI requests for Members and officer correspondence relating to developments?
Can be by email, or fax. Can't be oral.
If I specified the councillors, officers and topics of discussion in-scope do you think this would be considered detailed enough?
What specific development are you concerned with?
Be very specific and exact in what you want to know - they will only answer exactly what you have written.