FOI weekly round-up
• Faulty speed cameras could be catching out motorists for up to a year before being repaired. This was revealed by last Sunday’s Politics Show East on BBC1, which used freedom of information to obtain repair invoices for malfunctioning cameras from the Police … And this reminds me that I never told you the outcome of the case of South Yorkshire Police prosecuting themselves – they were fined £500.
• MPs opposed to the government’s plans to restrict FOI have tabled a parliamentary motion this week. The amount of support it gets from MPs could be an important indication of how much resistance the plans will meet in the Commons. So far it has 32 signatures, but that number will doubtless increase substantially.
• I’ve taken part in a podcast presented by Ibrahim Hasan, a solicitor specialising in information law. You can find it on his website.
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