‘Cost’ calculations as a barrier to gaining information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 from the police in England and Wales

Abstract

CLoK Central Lancashire online Knowledge www.clok.uclan.ac.uk 'Cost' calculations as a barrier to gaining information under the Freedom of

Estudio exploratorio sobre el número de solicitudes de acceso a la información y reclamaciones a nivel internacional comparado

“…Así, por ejemplo, estos datos han sido utilizados para evaluar implementación de leyes de acceso a la información en algunos países de Europa (Dragos, Kovač & Marseille, 2018), de Latinoamérica (Michener, 2015), de la India y sus diferentes Estados (Roberts, 2010), y para desarrollar un prototipo de índice internacional de transparencia (Lidberg, 2009). A nivel nacional, el número de solicitudes y reclamaciones han sido utilizados para comparar el desempeño en materia de transparencia de diferentes órganos estatales, tales como Agencias Federales (Baker, 2015); Municipios (Ben-Aaron, Denny, Desmarais & Wallach, 2017; Poole, 2019), Departamentos de Policía (Kingston, Elliott & Thomas, 2019) y Universidades (Lamoureux, 2019).…”

Policing Criminological Knowledge on Imprisonment in Pandemic Times: Confronting Opacity and Navigating Corporatization in Prison Research

“…State agencies use multiple techniques to block access to government records, from issuing excessive fee estimates, to delays, and refusal (Kingston et al 2019). Some of these techniques of obfuscation are not noted in legislation, but instead stem from administrative and policy decisions that reflect internal cultures of information control (Neuman and Calland 2007;Roberts 2005).…”

“…Some of these techniques of obfuscation are not noted in legislation, but instead stem from administrative and policy decisions that reflect internal cultures of information control (Neuman and Calland 2007;Roberts 2005). For instance, penal system agencies use high request processing fees to block access to information (Kingston et al 2019). Other information barriers can stem from a lack of resources and training to ensure ATI/FOI regimes operate ineffectively (Shepherd et al 2010) or deficient oversight that fails to rein-in significant delays in record disclosure (Hazell and Worthy 2010).…”

Freedom of Information Audits as Access Advocacy

“…Lagunes and Pocasangre (2017) noted that the fee charges in Mexico have been trending upwards and fee charges have been placed on requests sporadically and strategically, which was found to be suspicious and burdensome. Their audit of Mexican government agencies found fees to be placed strategically for the purpose of discouraging requesters from seeking certain public records and information (also see Kingston et al, 2018;Wagner, 2017). In an outrageous case, the 2009-2010 FOI audit conducted by News Media Canada observed how British Columbia's Ministry of Transportation was charging $98,603 for an FOI request on how much the agency had spent on cell phones (News Media Canada, 2010).…”