Information Commissioner (Decision Notice): ICO 10 Mar 2011

The complainant requested a copy of the Information Commissioner’s Office’s (ICO) Enforcement Referral Log. This was disclosed by the ICO with certain information redacted under section 31(1)(g) by virtue sections 31(2)(a) and (c) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the Act). The redacted information comprised of live enforcement cases from 2007 where disclosure would be likely to prejudice the ICO’s regulatory functions and all cases (whether live or not) where disclosure of the information provided by the public authority would be likely to prejudice the open dialogue of relevant enforcement issues. The Commissioner finds that the exemption in section 31(1)(g) is engaged and the public interest in maintaining it outweighs the public interest in disclosure.
Section of Act/EIR and Finding: FOI 31 – Complaint Not upheld

Citations:

[2011] UKICO FS50271526

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England and Wales

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Updated: 31 October 2022; Ref: scu.530343