The excellent fellow who submitted the FOI has today submitted another one. I'm posting most of it here cos it's a good un:
Dear Leeds City Council,
This is a follow up FOI based on the response received to a previous FOI request Ref 22150. This is not a request for an internal review, please do not treat it as such.
Background to request 1:
In response to FOI Ref 22150. LCC states regarding a summary of an investigation carried out:
"In light of this new information, officers had to quickly consider whether allowing the group to hold its meeting at the Civic Hall would represent a significant security risk and also impact the work to tackle prejudice and promote understanding in the city."
In the appendix 1 A of emails for FOI Ref 22150
Between 1202 which if the first email in the set from CLLR Jessica Lennox until 1305 email from Tom Riordan,.
"Just to be clear we are cancelling this booking as it was booked under false pretences.
Plse make sure we have a comms line and Civic colleagues are fully briefed in case people arrive for the meeting.
T
Tom Riordan"
There is no mention of a "significant security risk", nor any discussion, or risk assessment of the situation. Between these two time spans in the email release.
This commitment to cancel was further underscored by an email sent by Tom Riordan 11 minutes later at 13:16
"After consulting the Leader and Cllr Lewis, we are cancelling the booking. I understand the event was booked without the council being aware of the nature of it until today.
Richard can provide more details and I’ve asked him to consider any safeguards we can put in place to reduce the risk of it happening again.
Best wishes
Tom"
REQUEST 1.1: Please provide any and all recorded information where discussion that holding the event could represent a significant security risk.
REQUEST 1.1 Please provide any and all recorded information where consideration to cancel the event was made regarding the potential safety and security risks to the building, its staff and users.
He's also asked for details of all other events which Leeds held which were "high risk events", and if they were cancelled etc.
Bravo!