Information Commissioner's Office

Summary: The complainant was issued a Penalty Charge Notice (a parking ticket) by the council whilst parked on a pathway which was separate to, but adjacent to a section of highway which had double yellow lines on it. She therefore asked the council for information about how the council was able to issue her with a parking ticket whilst she was not parked on the road itself. She also asked for information about another car which had been parked near to hers which she believes was not issued with a parking ticket. The Commissioner's decision is that the council has disclosed the majority of the information she had requested which it holds. The Commissioner has also decided that the council was correct to apply the exemption for personal data to a request for information about whether a car parked near to hers received a parking ticket. He has decided however that it did not respond to one particular part of the request and did not confirm whether it holds relevant information.
Section of Act/EIR & Finding: FOI 1 - Complaint Partly Upheld