Most questions remain unanswered due to the council losing or mislaying key documents
AdvertisementIt followed complaints by campaigner Marcus Combie when he discovered council emails relating to the street tree felling scandal inappropriately marked ‘legally privileged – not subject to FOI’, which resulted in information being wrongly withheld in at least once instance.
Bevan Brittan said it was aware those potentially involved with the requests leaving the council may have impacted locating information but it still expected the authority to have a working document management system in place.Sheffield Tree Action Group said the report exposed an “astonishing absence of basic records management”.
Council staff told investigators the ‘not subject to FOI’ heading was intended as a red flag to colleagues in response to anxiety about the tree felling scandal, adding tree protesters “got quite nasty” and it was a “very difficult time”.One officer said: “I never considered by having that label that something that should have been disclosed wouldn’t be.”
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