Section 35 DPA? Mind you, it's still their discretion to
disclose!
Regards
Iain Harrison
Information Governance Officer
Contracts
& Governance Team,
Customer & Workforce Services,
Coventry City Council
Council House,
Earl Street
Coventry,
CV1 5RR
Telephone No: 024 7683 3305
Fax
No: 024 7683
3395
I could do with an opinion, please.
I own a small house that I
rent out to a tenant who is in arrears with her rent. She has a rent
guarantor who has signed a contract with me to guarantee the rent and given his
then current employer's name and then current address in the contract.
I
have obtained a county court judgment against both the tenant and the guarantor
for the full sum plus court costs
The tenant has vaporised and the
guarantor is no longer with that employer and no longer at his original
address. Both are untraceable. Neither has responded to the judgment
and bailiffs are having, unsurprisingly, no success.
So what has this to
do with the DPA?
Yesterday I approached the guarantor's ex employer,
explained the situation, produced the CCJ and the contract with me as evidence
that I am not some "casual enquirer" and that I have a reasonably justifiable
need to have details of the man's current whereabouts.
They refused,
stating that to supply me with these details would break the DPA.
The
question, and one which is hard for me to answer because I am personally
involved, is, "Do I have any right to press for data regarding the guarantor,
and, if so, what do I need to quote in order to get the data released?"
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