Merseyside Police redact dog names from invoices claiming the names are “personal information”

Merseyside Police redact dog names from invoices claiming the names are “personal information”

Merseyside Police redact dog names from invoices claiming the names are “personal information”

                                           

By John Brace (Editor) and Leonora Brace (Co-Editor)

First publication date: 12th January 2021, 15:57 (GMT)

In November 2012, when police and crime commissioners were introduced, a new requirement was placed on certain police forces in England to publish information on payments over £500 (including the recipients of such payments).
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Why did Liverpool City Council release the names of children and their parents in childcare proceedings and a vulnerable adult?

Why did Liverpool City Council release the names of children and their parents in childcare proceedings and a vulnerable adult?

Why did Liverpool City Council release the names of children and their parents in childcare proceedings and a vulnerable adult?

                                    

I do not have permission from either the Family Court nor the Court of Protection to publish the names of parties involved in these cases with Liverpool City Council. So those names I have blurred in green.

Yet, in what will not surprise anyone Liverpool City Council’s redactions of these documents during a public inspection meant the names of parents, children and parties was revealed to me. Their staff even let me take away copies.

Before publication I have covered some of these up in green.

Liverpool City Council’s Chief Executive in his capacity as Combined Authority Returning Officer states that we are not a media organisation.

Whereas Liverpool City Council may wish to live in a world where they can control the media, there is a point where it can backfire. The press is independent.

If you wish to make decisions about the press, then you are fair game for the press to write about.

Maybe ICO will slap them on the wrist and tell them to improve.

Or maybe this sort of matter is taken seriously?

I don’t know, but tomorrow voters in Wavertree will get to vote whether they want more of the same or a change.

Is the way Liverpool City Council treats the personal information of vulnerable adults and children replicated in their attitude towards how they treat them? With a lack of care?

Liverpool City Council invoice 1
Liverpool City Council invoice 1
Liverpool City Council invoice 2
Liverpool City Council invoice 2
Liverpool City Council invoice 3 redacted
Liverpool City Council invoice 3 redacted
Liverpool City Council invoice 4 redacted
Liverpool City Council invoice 4 redacted
Liverpool City Council invoice 5 redacted
Liverpool City Council invoice 5 redacted
Liverpool City Council invoice 6 redacted
Liverpool City Council invoice 6 redacted
Liverpool City Council invoice 7
Liverpool City Council invoice 7

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