Freedom of information

• Features / knife crime

  Knife crime in Bristol triples in a decade

  A Freedom of Information request has revealed a concerning increase in knife-related offences

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• News / bristol city council

  Judge dismisses council’s appeal against ICO’s notice on transparency

  In 2024, the Information Commissioner's Office ordered the council to get better at answering FoIs

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• News / Politics

  Councillors to debate ‘obfuscatory’ deletion of Rees’ emails

  Conservative Party councillors are making a stand for openness and transparency within City Hall

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• News / Grosvenor Hotel

  Emails between council and Grosvenor Hotel owner ‘cannot be published’

  A recent freedom of information request was refused

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• News / bristol city council

  Council criticised for ‘consistently poor’ handling of information requests

  Problems with freedom of information requests will persist under committees, councillors have warned

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