UK judge says ‘freedom of information’ means choice of digital file format
- The Washington Post

Back in 2009 and 2010, a man named Nick Innes asked the Buckinghamshire
County Council under the 2000 Freedom of Information Act for data regarding
student test results. The council rejected his request as overly broad. But
in doing so mentioned that it held the test information in a database.
Innes pressed and got hold of screen caps of the database.

Innes pressed again, and eventually the council gave him specific details
on how the database had been put together, including insight into what type
of information the database's headers were referring. He used that
information to narrowly tailor what he was asking the council to release in
his FOIA request. Eventually the council complied with Innes's
retooled information request -- but they did it by releasing 184 pages of
PDFs.


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