Part 2: The gift which keeps on giving
There are those who believe BS baffles brains. But when dealing with a qualified FoI practitioner, such as our public face, one knows when one is being feed BS by our [...]
Information Commissioner’s Office
One in three calls go unanswered and Information requests haven’t met targets for last five years
Yesterday at Cabinet, Cllr Lesley Whybrow (Green) & Cllr Tim Prater (Lib Dem) both raised the issue around the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of the council not [...]
Russell Tillson uses confidential information in Wimble’s Looker magazine and places lives in danger.
Updated – Thursday 17.3.22 @ 08:12am. On Wednesday 9 February, 2022, St Mary’s in the Marsh Parish Cllr, Russell Tillson, wrote the front page story in The [...]
Another Council Data Breach reveals £164,500 is owed in unpaid PCNs
Updated 01/02/22 @ 16:25 In yet another data breach by Folkestone & Hythe District Council, we now know that 127 people owe £164,498 for 1,667 unpaid Parking Charge [...]
Folkestone & Hythe District Councillors breach data protection law again
We’ll not beat about the bush and come straight to the point. Since the Waste Collection contract fiasco, many of you have contacted us regarding your Cllrs and their [...]
Council’s Corporate Retention Schedule is just blah, blah, blah, blah, blah
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah and none of this blah means anything, or if it does, it contradicts any other blah, blah, blah, blah, blah Folkestone & Hythe District [...]
FHDC not compliant with post-Schrems II data protection law?
Back in Dec 2020 we posted the following blog: The Council’s Facebook Page – some questions for them We asked Folkestone & Hythe District Council the questions and [...]
‘Should’ve gone to Specsavers’
The Local Government Transparency Code sets out the minimum data that Folkestone & Hythe District Council should be publishing, the frequency it should be published and [...]
Digital Judas betrays us all
Mobile phones, long a tool of liberation, have now become a digital Judas, regardless who we are, or where we are from. Mobile phones have helped tens of thousands of [...]
Kent & other Police forces take too much data from victims’ phones, says watchdog
Almost two years ago to the day, we ran the blog post The Long Read: Kent Police can extract mobile phone data without your knowledge, your consent or a warrant. That post [...]
Actions speak louder than words
The Folkestone & Hythe Labour Party openly admit and state in their privacy policy they are a data controller in their own right: As they openly claim that they are a [...]
Our public face curbs our Council’s right to charge for Environmental Information
On Sept 13th 2017, the Cabinet recommended that charging for Environmental Information would become mandatory. Report Number C-17-35 set out Shepway District Council’s [...]
Another significant data breach by Folkestone & Hythe District Council.
“I’m busy. I’m in a meeting” were the words of the monitoring officer and Solicitor to Folkestone & Hythe District Council, (FHDC), Amandeep [...]
Accidents, Collisions and a £325,000 data breach
In 2017, The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) visited the Grounds Maintenance department owned and run by Folkestone & Hythe District Council and a number of [...]
Official Diaries Part 2: East Kent Hospital Trust says yes. Folkestone & Hythe DC says no.
East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust (EKHUFT) have released Susan Acott’s , the Chief Executive’s diary. It is not as open as Cllr Paul [...]
Biggins Woods financial viability assessment – Here we go again.
At the end of October we brought you the post – A victory for the public interest In short it was about trying to secure via the Environmental Information Regulations, [...]
Biggins Wood, Cheriton: Planning Application Y17/0888/SH
Shepway District Council have submitted Planning Application Y17-0888-SH which is linked to planning application Y13/0024/SH to erect 49 industrial units (4562 sqm) and 2 [...]
Criminal?
There are a number of companies in the group and the “brand” known as “Sir Roger De Haan”. The “brand” relating to the harbour is as far [...]
Information Is Born Free, But Everywhere Is In Chains.
Information is born free, but everywhere is in chains. On the 15th Dec 2016 Dr Susan Priest,(pictured) Corporate Director at Shepway District Council (SDC) used urgency [...]
Failings to Pro-actively Disseminate “Environmental Information”.
It’s been 13 years and still they have not fully complied. It’s not just them though, they are we can assure you in good company. The Port of Dover, Folkestone [...]
Serious Data Breach of Personal Information By Shepway District Council.
Shepway District Council have released the names of 82 individuals in their Excel Payments to Suppliers data, July 2017. The names, addresses and pay data belonging to the [...]
Mass Data Purge
I have sent this FOI requests see below. It is about a mass data purge of information . I argue that disclosure of the data purge information would facilitate the [...]
Criminals in our Council Chamber? You decide.
Shepway District Cllrs are Data Controllers. As a data controller one must by law, be signed up to the ICO Register of Data Controllers. To not sign up is a criminal offence, [...]
ICO Data Register
As you may or may not know Councillors wear up to three hats in the normal course of their activities. As participants in Council Committees and decision-making, they are [...]