Sunday, 14 September 2008

Information can sometimes be destroyed after being requested under FOI

via OUT-LAW News on 2 September

Public authorities can destroy information after a Freedom of Information request for it has been made, the privacy regulator has said.

BUT ...

See: The guidance (PDF 4pp)

Hazel's comment:
That is a VERY BIG BUT up there as what the Information Commissioner said is that it is not an offence to destroy information which might have been used in answering a request that an authority has received IF, and only if, that material was scheduled to be destroyed under a scheduled management of records procedure.
It would, however, be better to keep the information.



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