When ‘Many Requests’ may not mean ‘Many Requests’
A troubling pattern emerging in some police section 14 FOIA refusals? Freedom of Information Act section 14(1) allows a public authority to refuse a request where it considers the request to be “vexatious”. In principle, that is understandable. Authorities should not be subjected to harassment, badgering or genuinely oppressive conduct. Some responses, less harshly, describe…