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Provide a Freedom of Information request system for your jurisdiction
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Genericise Alaveteli so it can be used for public email communications beyond requests for information #6850

Open RichardTaylor opened 2 years ago

garethrees commented 2 years ago

I'm pretty strongly -1 on this. Alaveteli adds value by explicitly aiding citizens make information requests.

We did collaborate on WriteInPublic back around ~2015-2018, but it looks like its been abandoned.

That said, Croatia have used Alaveteli as a platform for consumer complaints.

RichardTaylor commented 2 years ago

A WhatDoTheyKnow user has requested/suggested a service for making complaints to public bodies in public.

WilliamWDTK commented 1 year ago

A correspondent with mySociety has suggested a "function for publicly collating letters/emails sent to Government Departments, Local Authorities, etc." They say that it is "a vital step in maintaining transparency or gathering information outside the FOI or EIR acts. Also a way to publish letters sent to MPs."

WilliamWDTK commented 1 year ago

Because it took me a while to find this, I'm going to note some keywords: