Information Commissioner's Office

The complainant has requested the entire contents of each of his complaint files. The above public authority’s final position was to rely on section 14 of FOIA (vexatious) to refuse the request. The Commissioner’s decision is that the request was vexatious and therefore section 14(1) of FOIA was engaged. The public authority breached section 17 of FOIA as it failed to confirm, within 20 working days, that it was relying on section 14 to refuse the request. The Commissioner does not require further steps to be taken.