Issuing its enforcement notice in March 2024, the ICO said there had been “no improvement” in efforts to clear the backlog and that 39 months was “unreasonable”.<\/p>\n
Councillor Nicholas Coombes, vice-chairman of the Audit Committee, said: “We are appalled at the build-up of unanswered FOI requests under the last administration, and that BCC chose to appeal the regulator’s enforcement notice rather than take their advice.<\/p>\n
“BCC needs to stop hiding behind legal tricks and improve the FOI service, as recommended by the Information Commissioner. <\/p>\n
“Political leaders need to continue our transformation of the council to welcome public scrutiny and involvement, so that fewer people resort to Freedom of Information requests.<\/p>\n
“A genuinely open council makes better decisions and wastes less money on legal fees.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Issuing its enforcement notice in March 2024, the ICO said there had been “no improvement” in efforts to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-328057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114993561857471002","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}