ICO said prohibition on publication relates to material that is published by, or on behalf of, a local authority.
Information released under #FOI is published on a statutory basis so can't be "interpreted to be the same as the publication of material by the council itself".
The council had also argued the requester was an active member of a political party and the information related to an ongoing campaign around non-domestic rates.
The Commissioner said that wasn't relevant.
So, #FOI requests can carry on as normal as we head towards the election
#FOI shows in the last four academic years, police in the North West of England received 602 reports of primary or secondary pupils carrying or using blades in schools to threaten or attack
One incident, in Lancashire, involved a four-year-old boy
Dover has the highest number of animals privately owned under the Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976, according to #FOI, with two tigers, an amur leopard and more than 25 different breeds of venomous snakes kept in the harbour town.
Public bodies sometimes seem to forget is often it's less embarrassing - and cheaper - to hand over information from #FOI rather than try to sustain weak exemption arguments.
Old #FOI, new social media platform. This one has been done for every site and app you could think of - asking for any crimes that mentions a particular one.
Police recorded 6,241 alleged offences linked to TikTok last year, up from 5,000 in 2022.
Statistics obtained by Scottish Labour via #FOI show that 2,079 hours of overtime were worked by staff in maternity and midwifery units in NHS Ayrshire and Arran in 2022/23.