31 January (Part 1) - Bexley council - In trouble with the Information Commissioner again
It’s almost forgotten but it wasn’t just Elwyn Bryant and me who were the
subject of Bexley council’s obscene blog, Nicholas Dowling and Olly Cromwell got
a mention too. Nicholas was said to have been up to no good in the Cinema car
park. He chose not to complain to the police but he did ask Bexley council to
check if the obscene blog had been accessed from council computers. We know the
council can do that, how else can it keep and publish a record of the
100 most
popular sites visited by staff? Needless to say, Bexley council refused to give Nicholas the information.
Procedural delays can be extraordinarily long but more than six months later the
Information Commissioner has finally ruled that Bexley council has broken the law
again and must answer Nicholas’s question within the next 35 calendar days from 26 January 2011.
Every single question about the obscene blog has been evaded so far. The council
knows something but is never likely to say, preferring, as has been said before, to
harbour a criminal rather than expose one. I haven’t a clue who the culprit might
be, only that at one time the only man privy to the information was Chris Loynes,
the Head of Member Services, who disappeared soon afterwards.
On a related subject; Bexleyheath police’s refusal to give any explanation about why they
issued me with a Harassment Letter
(Form 9993) last April reached the top of the Independent Police Complaints Commission’s
in-tray last week and I have been told they are now looking
into that bit of Bexley council inspired nonsense too.