I work as an Information Officer for Bolton MBC, one of the 10 Greater
Manchester authorities mentioned by Peter Garlick. Overall responsibility
for DP and FOI rests with the Director of Central Services, but on a day to
day basis the work is done by Information Officers. We have one for each
department; our original remit was to collate and manage information for the
Council's CRM project, but this has been extended to cover DPA, FOI and
records management. For example, we will be dealing with subject access
requests under DPA, we put together the FOI Publication Scheme, we will be
dealing with requests under FOI and we are carrying out a records management
survey. We also work closely with Kathryn Matley, the seconded officer Peter
referred to.
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Carl Wiper
Information Officer
Corporate Communications
Bolton Metro
Town Hall
Bolton
BL1 1RU
tel: 01204 331031
mobile: 0778 903 1512
fax: 01204 380043
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From: Nicola Franklin [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 30 April 2003 09:04
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: DP and FoI
We are currently hosting a discussion group on an Online Campus for the
Information Management course of a university in New Zealand, and one of
the students has posted a question regarding these two issues, and I
wondered if people here could share some of their experiences in this ares?
The student in question moved to NZ around 10 years ago from the UK, and
remembers DP legislation coming into force here, with the consequent
recruitment of a number of 'Data Protection Officers' at public
authorities. He wonders whether the duties resulting from the FoI
legislation will be undertaken by these same staff, or whether new 'FoI
Officers' will need to be recruited, especially taking into account the
potential conflicts between the requirements to disclose/not disclose
information in the two pieces of legislation.
Could anyone give me an idea of what is happening in practice?
Many thanks for any help you can offer.
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