Submitted on Monday 27th November 2017
Rejected on Monday 11th December 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Change the law to make it more difficult for organisations to use section 14(1)
The Government to make 2 significant changes to the law: 1) Make it unlawful for organisations to withhold all/part of records, using Section 14(1) of FOIA to block people pursuing complaints of failure/abuse. 2) Give the public legitimate rights & full access to all their records free of charge
Currently, when complaints of failure/abuse are made to our public services, they engage their legal department using public money to gather/generate false misleading information, alter records, conceal & justify withholding records, preventing people taking their complaints further. The Hillsborough tragedy & the eventual full disclosure revealed the extent of the cover-up after 27 years. The impact on the poorest is that those most in need have no access to legal aid, justice or protection
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We're not exactly sure what you want the Government and Parliament to do.
You could start a new petition asking the UK Government and Parliament to change the law to remove Section 14(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, if that's what you want to happen.
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