TfL suppressed report showing LTNs don’t cut car use Sadiq Khan and his mayoral officials have spent years saying low-traffic neighbourhoods deter motorists

📢FOI in the news!

TfL abandons Low Traffic Neighbourhood study after unpublished results showed they increased cycling but did not reduce car use according to FOI disclosures obtained by the Times (paywall).

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Revealed: “Skyrocketing” scale of UK police's Secret Facial Recognition Searches of Passport and Immigration Databases Freedom of Information (FOI) requests have revealed the rapidly increasing scale of police mass facial recognition searches against the passport and immigration databases.

Revealed: “Skyrocketing” scale of UK police's Secret Facial Recognition Searches of Passport and Immigration Databases.

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Dozens more Afghan relocation data breaches uncovered by BBC The MoD admits 49 data breaches at the unit handling applications from Afghans seeking safety in the UK.

BBC FOI disclosures reveal 49 separate data breaches in the past four years at the unit handling relocation applications from Afghans seeking safety in the UK.

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A Helen Bamber Foundation investigation reveals that 56% of lone child asylum seekers were wrongly assessed as adults last year and placed in accommodation which forced them to share rooms with adult strangers.

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Freedom of Information Act training | Campaign for Freedom of Information This practical course is designed to help campaigners, journalists and others make the most of the FOI Act and parallel Environmental Information Regulations.

⚖️ Join us online on Wednesday 23rd July 2025 at 09.45am to explore the world of advanced Freedom of Information case law. Places are still available and can be secured via this link!

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Our next training course on advanced FOI case law is scheduled for Wednesday 23rd July via Zoom - please see the following link to book your place!

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Great round-up here from @alexparsons.bsky.social at mySociety about when FOI may prove more useful than parliamentary questions.

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Revealed: ‘chaotic’ system leaves freed prisoners untagged for months An undercover reporter finds staff are repeatedly sent to the wrong address by the monitoring service, which struggled with a backlog, while criminals mock the justice system

📢FOI in the news!

Prisoners freed without tags because of ‘unacceptable’ Serco backlog.

This article is behind a paywall at thetimes.com. Please note that access to the full content requires a subscription.

www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

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‘No guidance and no leadership’: chaos and confusion at CDC after mass firings On 1 April, thousands of workers at HHS and agencies like the CDC were let go, leaving those left to piece together the cuts and mourn the research that can’t go forward

📢FOI in the news!

Elon Musk’s Department for Government Efficiency (DOGE) axes entire Freedom of Information team at the US disease control agency the CDC.

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Trafficking victims rejecting UK government support because they fear being deported Nearly 6,000 victims of modern slavery chose not to be referred for help last year, new data shows

📢FOI in the News!

Thousands of trafficking victims reject government support for fear of deportation according to new FOI data obtained by the Observer and anti-slavery charity After Exploitation.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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Toxic town impact as most high-risk contaminated sites unchecked BBC investigation finds nine out of ten high-risk contaminated areas have not been tested.

📢FOI in the News!

BBC investigation shines new light on the scale of Britain’s toxic industrial legacy. Nine out of ten potentially contaminated waste disposal sites have never been checked!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Oakley v Information Commissioner [2024] UKFTT 315 (GRC) (18 April 2024)

⚖️ Information Tribunal News ⚖️

The FOI tribunal has said it cannot rely on ChatGPT’s output as evidence!

www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKF...

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Technology secretary Peter Kyle asks ChatGPT for science and media advice Strong advocate of AI use in government asks chat tool which podcasts to appear on and to define ‘quantum’

📢 First ChatBot logs revealed under FOI!️

New Scientist reveals ChatGPT history of Peter Kyle, the cabinet minister for technology. These disclosures were made without a fight and may open the door to similar releases!

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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