Buncefield Oil disaster reports
Jun 27, 2006 Environment, Useful sites
The Environment Agency has published several online resources about the ongoing investigation into the Buncefield oil disaster of 11 December 2005:
Buncefield Investigation – a collection of the main reports.
Buncefield latest news
Student breaks story with FOIA
Jun 26, 2006 Uncategorized
Last year I spoke to the Association of Journalism Educators about the importance of teaching students about the Freedom of Information Act. So I was pleased to receive an email from one of the lecturers at Sheffield University telling me how an FOI assignment for their investigative journalism module had led one student to [...]
Police FOI contact details
Jun 13, 2006 Law Enforcement, Useful sites
I’ve obtained a list of the FOI contact points for all the UK police forces. The format is a bit weird at the moment, but my tech team is working on it, and it should be fixed shortly.
http://www.yrtk.org/constabulary-contacts/
Article: Free Our Data
Jun 11, 2006 Articles, Campaigns, Central Government
How can public information be free if there’s a charge?
Guardian, 8 June 2006
By Heather Brooke
It may be a modern version of squaring the circle. According to the director of the Office of Public Sector Information (Opsi), Carol Tullo, it is feasible to open up the government’s stores of data, uphold copyright and charge the public [...]
