This course will give you the tools to deal with FOI and EIR requests. This isn’t a dull trek through the FOI provisions; this is about developing a strategic approach to FOI, looking at how to create a process that is fast, effective and fair. We’ll work through a detailed process for receiving, filtering, clarifying and logging requests.

Course includes:

• Developing an FOI / EIR strategy – corporate measures to ensure that information is properly organised, accessible and available (and deleted when it’s no longer needed)

• Testing your FOI procedure

• Publication and disclosure logs

• The definition of environmental information

• Establishing when information is ‘held’

• When identity of the applicant is relevant

• Clarification

• The cost limit and aggregating requests