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What's all this then?

Martin Rosenbaum | 11:15 UK time, Thursday, 24 April 2008


Making a freedom of information request is the right of every citizen - even, so it seems, a Chief Constable wanting to use a pseudonym for research for pay negotiations.

But it's not only in Britain that the Police have found freedom of information to be a useful investigative tool. Earlier this month the El Paso Times in Texas reported (but you need to pay to read it) that the FBI had put FOI requests to school districts as part of a probe into corruption in local government contracts.

So for those of you who receive FOI requests, just remember next time - it could be the Police who are asking.

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