Your Right To Know A Citizen's Guide to the Freedom of Information Act

New edition of this popular guide. Shows how to get the information you want through using the new freedom of information act.

Heather Brooke is a campaigner for open government and a freelance writer with articles published in The Times, The Sunday Times, Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Independent, Evening Standard, New Statesman, BBC History and Journalist magazines. She was a runner-up for the inaugural Paul Foot award for investigative journalism. She has been interviewed on Sky news, The Politics Show on BBC One, BBC Radio 4 (The Message, You & Yours, The World Tonight), BBC Radio 5 Live, and BBC Radio Two’s Jeremy Vine show. Heather currently teaches the ‘FOIA and investigative journalism’ course for the National Union of Journalists. She has trained journalists at the Guardian, Financial Times, Independent, Trinity Mirror newspapers, BBC News and BBC World Service.

Foreword by Ian HislopIntroductionChapter 1 - FOI in practiceChapter 2 - ScotlandChapter 3 - Laws of AccessChapter 4 - Central GovernmentChapter 5 - Intelligence, Security and DefenceChapter 6 - TransportChapter 7 - The Justice SystemChapter 8 - Law Enforcement and Civil DefenceChapter 9 - HealthChapter 10 - The EnvironmentChapter 11 - Local GovernmentChapter 12 - EducationChapter 13 - Private CompaniesChapter 14 - Information about Individuals