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Make clearer to authorities where requests are embargoed

Open WilliamWDTK opened this issue 2 years ago • 2 comments

On on-site help pages, and explicitly stating so in the footer of emails from requests concerned.

WilliamWDTK avatar Oct 06 '22 15:10 WilliamWDTK

I think there was an active decision not to do this, to deter additional scrutiny of such requests, or for them to be otherwise treated differently.

It's worth reconsidering though.

RichardTaylor avatar Oct 06 '22 20:10 RichardTaylor

I ponder if a mechanism that might work would be a 'check this email address is valid' tool - e.g. provide the email address and Alaveteli will confirm if the request is legitimate or not.

This would follow our existing advice, in that we never directly confirm a request is embargoed - but we will confirm if the address is valid (and advise that "not all requests are published").

Longer term, it would be good if we were able to implement a variant of #7351 (perhaps via a "verified" account that could also be used for https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/issues/6791), as this would allow FoI officers to self-serve to a greater extent, reducing a bit of friction for them, and a bit of admin time for us.

#3888

mdeuk avatar Oct 12 '22 05:10 mdeuk