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Will the Scottish Government face another court case over FoI non-compliance? Read the Scottish Information Commissioner’s full statement at foi.scot/preposterous-e… #FoIReformNow #secretscotland #freedomofinformation #foi #accesstoinformation

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It’s #FreedomOfInformationDay 🎉 Over 110k FOI requests were made to Scottish authorities last year! See the latest Scottish FOI statistics: foi.scot/statistics Want updates like this & results from our recent poll? Sign up to our newsletter: tinyurl.com/FOINewsletter

Scottish Information Commissioner @DvdHmltn said he “can no longer trust the Government to handle this information unsupervised” following what he described as a “breach of trust” by the Scottish Government. Read more: tinyurl.com/Non-Compliance…

NEW: Despite NHS Glasgow bosses trying to discredit @SkyNews reporting on the super hospital cancer ward mould scare, the Scottish Government has just confirmed mould growth has now been found in the bone marrow transplant unit.

We’re recruiting for a fixed-term Freedom of Information Officer (Policy & Information) to help promote and strengthen FOI rights in Scotland. If you have strong research, writing and analytical skills, we’d love to hear from you! Visit: foi.scot/current-vacanc…

🎙️CFOI Director Maurice Frankel OBE joins the latest episode of the Guardians of Data Podcast to discuss the remarkable story behind the UK’s FOI Act Do not miss earlier podcasts with the excellent @jonbainesdata and @LynnFOI! actnowtraining.blog/2026/03/04/gua…

Scotland has a "staggering" number of public bodies and it is not clear what many of them do, the information watchdog has said. David Hamilton said he kept finding new authorities and regulators "that I never even knew existed". scotsman.com/news/politics/…

On my lunch break! Missed another critical element here last night. In the court of session appeal heard in Jan 26', the SG claimed that there was more legal advice in relation to the "not held" appeal. This made no sense to me or the SIC, as all the legal advice had (or so we

I think today has been of the most shocking elements of this saga so far. Remember, the FM said for weeks, and the SG has said to me and the press that #202006" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">parliament.scot/chamber-and-co…

runs the risk of contempt. This failure of redaction has completely undermined SG arguments that it takes this matter seriously, as well as its decision to pursue court action against the SIC in relation to contempt orders.

foi.scot/commissioner-s… SIC statement and letter to PS of SG. This issue is becoming even more serious with each coming day...

I would urge anyone considering publishing this information, and thinking "well, the SG published it first, so I can't commit contempt" to think again. The SG has recognised its mistake and fixed it. Anyone attempting to use their failure of redaction to publish/make reference

My correspondence with @scotgov Permanent Secretary re Hamilton Inquiry files is now published on @foiscot website. Since then we have seen yet more information removed from their data dump and still no attempt to structure or order the records. foi.scot/commissioner-s…

Back in the hot seat with @mmgeissler - on @BBCScotland #SCOTCAST and guess what we're talking about.... bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

#FOI26 is an excellent event 4 FoI practitioners & civil society to receive updates on best practice and capitalise on and risk assess new opportunities such as AI. Inspiring contributions from @FOIScotland & @ICOnews Now looking forward to #eCaseFOIAwards thanks to @FiviumUK

What an absolute shambles. heraldscotland.com/news/25898909.…

#Ukraine: This week marked four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. In our latest newsletter, we examine how freedom of expression has become a significant casualty of this devastating war ⬇️ indexoncensorship.org/2026/02/free-s…

Audit Scotland warns radical change is needed as Integrated Joint Boards’ services can’t be sustained due to funding gap of £450m. Change must include equally applying FoI law to all providers of social care to ensure transparency. ⁦⁦@unisonscot⁩ tfn.scot/news/urgent-wa…