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Complaining to ombudsman feature requirements
confirmordeny edited this page Nov 11, 2012
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Placeholder to capture functional requirements for allowing users to escalate a complaint to an ombudsman (eg the Information Commissioner in the UK).
- Currently, where a response is overdue the site sends a reminder email to the requester. The proposed new feature is that at this point the requester should be able to press a button to "Let the [name of regulator] know that [name the public authority] has not responded in time.
- In most cases the name of regulator would be the Information Commissioner's Office. Some bodies are covered by the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and regulated by the Scottish Information Commissioner. All or almost all of these bodies are tagged with "Scotland".
- The feature should not exist for requests made to authorities tagged "foi_no", these bodies are not subject to FOI.
- Pressing the button would display a standardised email (that the user cannot edit) and an option to press "send" or "cancel".
- The email would include a link to the request in question.
- The ICO's email address is: casework@ico.gov.uk
- Sending the email should trigger a change of status to a new status called "The [name of regulator] has been told that [name of authority] are late in providing a full response to this request.
##Feature 2 - following an internal review
- The feature should only be available where the request has already gone through the 'awaiting internal review status' and where the request is not currently awaiting classification.
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- The feature should not exist for requests made to authorities tagged "foi_no", these bodies are not formally subject to FOI.
- The ICO's email address is: casework@ico.gov.uk
##Technicalities that we may not want to address
- Schools sometimes get longer than twenty working days to deal with FOI requests.
- You cannot appeal to the Scottish Information Commissioner in [certain exceptional cases](if your original request was to a procurator fiscal, in some cases, the Lord Advocate, or the Scottish Information Commissioner herself.)