Freedom of Information

Generally, all other information held by the Lincolnshire Road Safety Partnership will be made available.

The following categories of information are exempt because they could jeopardise the operational effectiveness of camera enforcement, and thus fall under the Exemption as outlined in Section 31 of the FOI Act - Law Enforcement – Section A and B:

i. Specific enforcement thresholds applied by a Partnership.

This category of information will be exempted nationally because of the concern that the information contains working practices that, if known, would have an impact on operational policing. Following application of the public interest test in September 2004 ACPO concluded that:

“It is considered that the public interest in disclosing site specific data at this level is outweighed by the potential consequences to law enforcement and the impact of such a release on road safety measures.”

ii. Site specific information that includes:

The level of use of a single site – e.g. Numbers of offences detected at a single site, hours of enforcement time at a site, revenue generated on a site-specific basis;