sebbacon/alaveteli — Issue #295: Don't Say Authorities Not Subject to Access to Info Laws Are In Breach of Them
Author: RichardTaylor
Created: 2011-11-25 14:46:58+00:00
State: open

WhatDoTheyKnow tags those bodies which are not subject to FOI as foi_no

(I suspect other installations will want to do similar)

At the moment after the relevant period we display:

"By law, under all circumstances,[Body] should have responded by now (details)."

We shouldn't say this in respect of bodies which are not formally subject to FOI

We should probably just cut the sentence and leave the description at: "Response to this request is long overdue."

Or we could say "If [Body] had been subject to the Freedom of Information Act, ,[Body] should have responded by now (details)."

In the case of eir_only tagged bodies we can still include the "By law..." sentence. (Though that depends on the content of the request!)