According to
the FoI data, # 64.4 million went on «technical advisers»: project managers who secure and oversee building contractors.
Not exact matches
Writes the Telegraph «s Andrew Hough in «Philip Morris: tobacco firm using
FOI laws to access secret academic
data ``:
The
data referenced in this section comes from
FOI requests made by Liam Sheehan to the borough councils and GLA.
Another potential concern are Jones» emails stating that he convinced
FOI officers not to release
data to greenhouse skeptics because they planned to harm the university or setback climate science.
In comments on the apparent
data theft at Real Climate, Gavin Schmidt of NASA said: «There is an ill - advised suggestion, but there is no evidence that any email that was responsive to a
FOI request actually was deleted.
It's being touted as more smoking gun evidence that UEA's Jones and colleagues working in climate science conspired to cover up
data, engineer which papers made it through peer review, and, most damningly, avoid Freedom of Information (
FOI) requests.
Bew has suggested including an exemption for unpublished research (which already exists in Scottish
FOI legislation), warning of the possible harm that may be caused if
data is released before it has been peer - reviewed.
The Scope of this project is to: - Provide seed funding and support pilot implementation of ideas resulting from the June 2014 design workshop on improving outcomes for babies in foster care; - Launch pilots of co-designed strategies for working collaboratively with parents in creating daily, regularized family routines in four sites and evaluate executive function skills, child development, child literacy and parental stress levels of participants pre -, during, and post-intervention; - Build a core group of leaders to help set the strategic direction for Frontiers of Innovation (
FOI) and take on leadership for parts of the portfolio; - With Phil Fisher at the University of Oregon and Holly Schindler at the University of Washington develop a measurement and
data collection framework and infrastructure in order to collect
data from
FOI - sponsored pilots and increase cross-site and cross-strategy learning; Organize Building Adult Capabilities Working Group to identify, measure and develop strategies related to executive function and emotional regulation for adults facing high levels of adversity and produce summary report in the fall of 2014 that reviews the knowledge base in this area and implications for intervention, including approaches that impact two generations.
This vital assistance helps community - based teams build their own internal capacity to develop intervention strategies and materials, specify hypotheses to be tested, conduct rigorous evaluations, participate in a shared
data library that serves all
FOI projects, and be well - positioned for scalability if their intervention is found to be effective.
FOI laws were created to allow individuals to access public
data held by the Federal Government, and since the IRS is part of that Government, you can use Freedom of Information Requests to see how they calculated your back taxes owed, how they've determined what penalties, fees, fines, and interest should apply to your debt, and look for problems that would allow you to reduce or even wipe out the money that they're demanding.
Separately, some of our incomplete and unpublished work on the Yamal and Polar Urals tree - ring
data has been the subject of multiple requests under UK
FOI / EIR legislation.
Whenever there is a scandal about missing
data or
FoI refusals or incompletely described methods or almost anything else in climatology it is always one of his close associates who is involved.
In Jan 2005 Phil Jones said he would be sheltering the
data from
FOI.
Well, we seem to have plenty of evidence of
data manipulation, covering up real
data, violations of
FOI statutes, persecution of opposing scientists and censorship of opposing science.
In my
FOI request, I asked for (1) the URALS regional chronology referred to in the email; (2) a list of identifiers for the measurement
data sets used in the calculation (3) a list of the measurement
data sets used in the «long» Polar Urals chronology referred to in the email.
There are partial minutes («Salient points»), which evidence that
FOI had been raised in connection with CRU's obstruction of Willis Eschenbach's September 2007 request for CRUTEM
data, but «time ran out».
Background: November 2009 Steve McIntyre has used Freedom of Information (FOIA or
FoI) requests to gain access to CRU
data since 2007.
The pending
FOI request was for temperature
data which is scarcely mentioned in the emails.
When I requested the tree - ring
data from Queen's University Belfast (under
FoI / EIR), the head tree - ring researcher, Mike Baillie, was repeatedly dishonest in his responses.
Willis Eschenbach, whose 2007
FOI request for
data had been stonewalled, wrote in angrily (Aug 11 — 752) asking that the 2007 refusal be reconsidered, pointing to CRU's failure to produce a single confidentiality agreement restricting the station
data.
As the head of Info Policy & Compliance for UAE I'd expect him to be thoroughly across the legals of copyright,
data management, confidentiality and
FOI.
UEA is a public institution that was illegally withholding public
data in violation of
FOI laws.
First, if they were contractually obligated to keep their raw
data secret, they could simply say so, instead of just stonewalling
FOI requests.
Climategate is about a whistleblower releasing email,
data and code having been gathered for a long time (likely due to
FOI requests).
So you don't believe
data was hidden,
FOI resisted, requests to delete incriminating emails made, journals arm - twisted, the Decline hidden from policymakers, coverup «Investigations» of the aforementioned run, and so on?
The curtain rises again on Thursday, July 16 (and this passed unnoticed at CA at the time) when Andrew Montford sent an
FOI request (2786) presciently requesting copies of the confidentiality agreements governing the station
data.
I have always assumed that the reason for their refusal was not to try to protect the CRUTEM
data itself, but simply part of a strategy of refusing any and all
FOI requests in an attempt to prevent precedents being set that might help some other
FOI request which they were far more anxious about.
It has yet to enquire into the corporation's use of
FOI derogation to withhold
data such as the BBC's US tax contributions, website statistics, and strategic policy - making decisions.
[Update — this minor mystery is clarified: it looks like the
data was unlocked on Sep 9, 2008, the day after my
FOI request but before my -LSB-...]
If global warming so obvious and incontrovertible, why be in such a panic about
FOI, why talk openly about re-defining «peer review», why threaten to (or actually) delete
data?
Couple that with whats already known: - deliberate and illegal
FOI avoidance in the UK - evidence of professional misconduct - Misrepresentation of
data
The first scandal of many â $ «ClimateGate â $ «involved thousands of stolen e-mails showing the potential manipulation of temperature
data, a willingness to destroy information rather than release it under British Freedom of Information (
FOI) law and the intimidation of publications willing to publish skeptical articles.
Well, to be charitable, apparently the requested
data is not a product of the responsible practice of research and so the
FOI doesn't qualify under the Australian code of conduct for doing responsible research.
Last month, the Information Commissioner ruled that scientists from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia â $ «the source of the leaked â $ ˜Warmergateâ $ ™ emails â $ «acted unlawfully in refusing
FOI requests to share their
data.
So I have no sympathy for Briffa, the CRU, the University of East Anglia, or any other organization that refuses
FOI requests for release of
data.
I'm not aware that Briffa received
FOI request for tree - ring measurement
data.
b) If the raw
data had been released on
data -
FOI, there likely would be been no metadata -
FOI ’s
Well, since I made the first
FOI for this
data, I can assure you that you are wrong.
If the 1990 paper
data was Jones» personal property and proprietary, why did he end up releasing it under
FOI?
Some
FOI requests were merely for the station ID's so that the relevant raw
data could be obtained (even from individual NMS).
Of course this would have been a major blow to their credibility if the climategate leak had unfolded in the same manner as last November, but who's to say what difference this might have made if the
FOI had been answered with «full» disclosure of the value added
data with official sanction of the contributing agencies.
And while the university should have responded much better to Freedom of Information requests - which the university admits - many of the
FoI requests came, the Muir Russell panel said, from competent people who should have known that the
data is freely available and can easily be processed.
As a result of
FOI requests a few years ago (and only after
FOI), lists of
data sets used became available.
Honestly, I've never heard of
FOIs used to attempt to force a scientist to release
data that he was legally obligated not to release.
andrew adams: Did the emails not expose top climate scientists discussing and possibly deleting
data and emails, evading
FOI requests, and rigging peer review and blogging discussions?
The CRU emails clearly show: - intent to hide / delete
data — actual evidence of deliberate
FOI avoidance (illegal in the UK - they only esaped prosecution due to a legal loop - hole which has now been closed).
First of all, Santer should know that a fundamental principle of
FOI is that the requester does not need to provide any reason for asking for the
data.
Phil Jones: Well sometimes we get requests and, sometimes not through
FOI, just from other scientists, we point them in the right direction as to where they might get the
data.
FOI requests related to research are far less likely if your
data is made publicly available with the appropriate metadata, with codes made available upon request.
Like the time reversal mechanism assumed by Nature when they blamed
data obstruction by climate scientists back in 2005 on
FOI requests in summer 2009.