I think you would be on very tenuous ground if you did. And frankly
claiming such an exemption for something as innocuous as supplying
someone's work telephone number is likely to cause you even bigger
headaches at a later date. (You can just imagine what the Daily Mail
would say!!) As I was saying yesterday (and this is backed up by the
advice given by the ICON) senior managers/directors should be held
accountable to Joe Public; and this may be one way in which you can
raise the Directors awareness of FOIL as an issue that they need to take
seriously.
I would suggest that as part of your "duty to consult", before making or
declaring your own views, you should contact the said Directors and ask
them if they would object to the information being disclosed. If none
of them object, you disclose. And if they do object, you can use their
arguments for deciding whether any exemptions are appropriate.
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tim Rodgers
Sent: 10 February 2006 12:35
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Subject: [data-protection] Directors telephone numbers
As a local authority we have directors of service who have PAs.
Director's are contacted usually through their PA's through a specific
number i.e.
2000. The director themselves have a direct line - say 2001 - but this
is not common knowledge outside of the organisation.
We now have an FOI request asking for the direct numbers of the
directors.
To be honest it's likely that, in practice, these are camped on to their
PA's but that is besides the point.
A phone number doesn't identify someone as such so I don't think we can
claim it as personal information, however could we claim that revealing
this number would be prejudicial to our business (e.g. Section 36) in
managing the workload of our directors?
Tim
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