Bristol City Council refuse to name politician who ordered the stoppers installed near the Cenotaph

In a worrying turn of events, Bristol City Council’s data protection team ruled that once politicians are no longer in post, they are treated as private individuals and their information cannot be disclosed under a freedom of information act request.

I discovered this when I recently lodged an FOI request. I wanted to find out about the decision-making in relation to installation of skateboard stoppers near the Cenotaph, and within a few weeks, the council had…