Notes of meetings – On 4 July 2013 and 19 September 2013, Mr R asked the Scottish Prison Service (the SPS) for notes taken at meetings held on those respective dates. In relation to the first request, the SPS advised Mr R to submit a subject access request under the Data Protection Act 1998 (the DPA). The SPS failed to respond to the other request and, on review, stated that it was repeated.
During the investigation, as all the information had been made available to Mr R under the DPA, the SPS concluded that it was otherwise accessible to him and applied section 25(1) of FOISA. The Commissioner accepted this following her investigation.
The Commissioner identified failures in the time taken to respond to one request and its eventual rejection as repeated.
Citations:
[2014] ScotIC 095 – 2014
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Jurisdiction:
Scotland
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Updated: 09 December 2022; Ref: scu.525561
