5 June 2014, Local government (Other)
The complainant made 15 requests to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) between 30 December 2013 and 21 January 2014 for information broadly about guidance, training, invoices, staff, correspondence relating to the ICO’s vexatious guidance, minutes, tribunal decisions, presentations, fraud procedures, an attendance sign-in sheet for a tribunal hearing and reports relating to monitoring of Devon County Council. The ICO refused to comply with the request as it considers it is vexatious under section 14 of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The Commissioner’s decision is that the ICO has correctly applied section 14 FOIA in this case, it was not therefore obliged to comply with the request. The Commissioner requires no steps to be taken. Information Tribunal appeal EA/2014/0149 dismissed.
FOI 14: Not upheld