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(Decision Notice) [2014] UKICO FS50513836 (30 January 2014)
Summary: The complainant has requested a copy of an agreed licence which council minutes referred to in 2010. The council provided a copy of a licence to the complainant however sections for the date and for the signatory had been blacked out as if redacted. The complainant wrote back to the authority and said that he understood that the licence was in fact only draft, and that it seemed clear from the licence provided to him that the blacked out sections did not in fact redact any information. He therefore asked the council to confirm whether the licence which had been sent to him was the agreed licence, and whether the blacked out sections redacted any information from the licence. The council did not however respond to him. Following the Commissioner contacting the council it then responded to the complainant confirming the copy was a draft and that no information had been redacted from the document on 16 January 2014. The Commissioner-™s decision is that the complainant's request to explain the redacted sections of the document was a request for review requiring the council to respond under Regulation 11(1). The council-™s failure to respond to that request within 40 working days is a breach of Regulation 11(4). However as the council then responded to the complainant on 17 January 2014 the council had complied with the requirements of the Regulations at that point. The Commissioner does not require the council to take any steps.
Section of Act/EIR & Finding: EIR 11 - Complaint Upheld