One for the Local Authority contributors:
We have over 20,000 manual "house files" relating to council residential property, some with 40-50 former tenants listed. These are used by our housing department for "exclusions", in other words checking if a new applicant has a previous bad record and should not be housed - clearly a significant decision to make about a person.
At the time this data was collected we were not routinely informing data subjects that their information would be retained for this purpose and, in most cases, we can't tell them now as we don't know their current address.
How have other Authorities handled this one? Have you stopped keeping old data for exclusions, or have you found something in LA legislation that justifies it?
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Neil
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Neil Chadwick
Stoke-on-Trent City Council
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