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🚨 Public authorities are undermining basic UK legal rights - by failing to provide individuals with their personal data, Jenna Corderoy reports.
We found that this is directly impacting on vulnerable people, including victims of human trafficking and the Windrush scandal...🧵⤵️
Jenna Corderoy Data protection laws allow individuals to request a copy of any of their personal data that is held by an organisation.
These 'Subject Access Requests' (SARs) have become a vital tool for collecting evidence in legal cases, as well as helping to hold authorities to account
Jenna Corderoy But we found that public authorities – police, councils and government – are routinely missing the statutory response deadlines. In other cases, responses have been sent with key documents missing.
This can have a massive knock-on effect in the justice system.
Jenna Corderoy In one case, the lengthy delays meant that an asylum application made by a victim of human trafficking had to be submitted before lawyers were provided with access to important personal documents.
These failures are widespread because there is almost no enforcement of the law