Summary: The complainant requested information relating to inappropriate behaviour by staff working in a women-™s prison. The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) refused to disclose the requested information citing section 40(2) (personal information)of FOIA. The Commissioner-™s decision is that the exemption was correctly applied to some of the withheld information but that the remaining withheld information is not -˜personal data-™. The Commissioner requires the public authority to disclose the aggregate information it confirmed it holds relating to the number of prison officers suspended, dismissed or convicted as a result of sexually inappropriate behaviour with women prisons in the past five years.
Section of Act/EIR & Finding: FOI 40 - Complaint Partly Upheld