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As some of you may know I allowed myself to get talked into standing for the local Council last year. What is even worse is that I ended up being elected to both the Town and District Councils ;-) I would therefore be grateful for any comments on the following: 1. Who should be the Council's Data Protection Officer? The District Council is proposing to allocate responsibility as Data Protection Officer to the Head of Legal and Member Services (i.e. the District Solicitor). My own view is that there should be a direct line of control between the senior officer allocated responsibility for Data Protection and the people actually dealing with data management (who work in the IT Dept). Do others agree? What does your Council do? 2. Should there be a single registration? There are currently 15 entries (grouped under headings like Housing Management, Collection of Rates, Personnel/Employee Adminstration). It is being proposed that the Council needs to be registered as a whole. My own view is that registration should be by type of contact (so you'd probably end up with five separate registrations dealing with Electoral Registration, Taxpayers, Employees, Suppliers and Services provided). What do other Councils do? Cheers Graham Smith %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%