FOIMan brings you the final (for now) part of his series for PDP’s Freedom of Information Journal.
Yes, it’s here at last, the final instalment in this series of articles about the practical difficulties of applying FOI in the workplace. This final piece looks at the fraught issue of who and how responses should be approved. It looks at what can happen when senior or political figures get too involved, and whether Press Officers should be allowed to comment on responses or be part of the approval process. So nothing too contentious then…