Summary: The complainant requested information relating to requests for links to the public authority-™s website. The public authority refused to respond to the request, on the grounds that the request was not specific. Following the intervention of the Commissioner, a partial response was provided to the complainant but this failed to cover the entire time period specified in the request. Further information was conveyed to the complainant during the course of the Commissioner-™s investigation. The Commissioner finds that the public authority incorrectly used the provisions of section 1(3) of the Act in order to refuse to respond to the request and, by its failure to provide a response within 20 working days, the public authority breached section 10(1) of the Act.
Section of Act/EIR & Finding: FOI 1 - Complaint Upheld, FOI 10 - Complaint Upheld