Just What is Happening about The Riverine Centre?
We wrote to the council under the FOI Act and asked several questions. Particularly we wanted to know what was being done to give effect to the court order of January 2018. Three years seems to have been enough time to decide whether to act on the court order. We wrote in February.
In mid-March we received the following reply. We await the full response.
Freedom of Information Act 2000We are contacting you in response to your request for information relating to area referred to as the Riverine Centre under Reference 4959501.We had hoped that we would be able to respond to your request in full by today but unfortunately we are still in the process of considering your request in light of the possible use of exemptions to part of your request. Although the Act carries a presumption in favour of disclosure, it provides exemptions which may be used to withhold information in specified circumstances. Some of these exemptions, referred to as 'qualified exemptions', are subject to a public interest test. This testis used to balance the public interest in disclosure against the public interest in favour of withholding the information. The Act allows us to exceed the 20 working day response target where we need to consider the public interest test fully. We are still negotiating the scope of the use of Section 40 (2) of the Act, in respect of personal data, in relation to your request and in determining whether such information may already be in the public domain and therefore able to be disclosed under the Act. The information which you have requested is being considered in light of the public interest test and we need to extend the 20 working day response period. We now aim to let you have a full response by 8th April at the latest but will endeavour to respond to you as soon as possible.Again, our sources tell us that the questions have caused a lot of scurrying in and around the mayor’s office. We do expect an announcement, probably just before the FPI reply.