{"id":36,"date":"2014-04-17T11:13:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T10:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.devon.gov.uk\/accesstoinformation\/?page_id=36"},"modified":"2019-05-14T15:16:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T14:16:43","slug":"freedom-of-information","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/accesstoinformation\/freedom-of-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom of information"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA)<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/ukpga\/2000\/36\/contents\" rel=\"noopener\">FOIA 2000<\/a> provides anybody with a right to request recorded information held by public authorities such as Devon County Council.<\/p>\n<p>The request should :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>be in writing<\/li>\n<li>describe the information required in as much detail as possible<\/li>\n<li>include an address for correspondence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/accesstoinformation\/freedom-of-information\/how-to-make-a-request\">How to make a Freedom of Information request<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our obligations are to :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>acknowledge receipt of your request<\/li>\n<li>confirm if we hold the information or not<\/li>\n<li>provide the information if held, subject to any exemptions that may apply<\/li>\n<li>provide a response to your request within twenty working days of receipt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other types of request<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.legislation.gov.uk\/uksi\/2004\/3391\/contents\/made\" rel=\"noopener\">Environmental Information Regulations (EIR)\u00a02004 <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/accesstoinformation\/how-to-make-a-request\">Make a request under Environmental Information Regulations<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) The FOIA 2000 provides anybody with a right to request recorded information held by public authorities such as Devon County Council. The request should : be in writing describe the information required in as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/accesstoinformation\/freedom-of-information\/\" aria-label=\"Continue reading Freedom of information\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":776,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":23,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-36","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-15 21:24:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/accesstoinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/accesstoinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/accesstoinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/accesstoinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/776"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/accesstoinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/accesstoinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4295,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/accesstoinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions\/4295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/accesstoinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}