23 June 2016, Police and criminal justice
The complainant has requested information about two people convicted of various offences in 1983. The Crown Prosecution Service withheld the information under section 40(2) (third party personal information) of the FOIA. During the Commissioner’s investigation, it also applied section 38 (health and safety) of the FOIA. The Commissioner’s decision is that the Crown Prosecution Service has applied section 40(2) of the FOIA appropriately to all of the information. The Commissioner does not require the Crown Prosecution Service to take any steps as a result of this decision.
FOI 40: Not upheld