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It can be hard to untangle government's complicated structure, and work out who holds the information that you want. Here are a few tips:
Please contact us with the name of the public institution and, if you can find it, their contact email address for Freedom of Information requests.
If you'd like to help add a whole category of public institution to the site, we'd love to hear from you too.
Please put in your request only what is needed so that someone can easily identify what information you are asking for. Please do not include any of the following:
If you do, we may have to remove your request to avoid problems with libel law, which is a pain for both you and us. Short, succinct messages make it easier for institutions to be clear what information you are requesting, which means you will get a reply more quickly.
If you want information to support an argument or campaign, Freedom of Information is a powerful tool. Although you may not use this site to run your campaign, we encourage you to use it to get the information you need. We also encourage to run your campaign elsewhere - one effective and very easy way is to start your own blog. You are welcome to link to your campaign from this site in an annotation to your request (you can make annotations after submitting the request).
Not if it costs nothing for the institution to scan it. Making an APD request is nearly always free.
By law, public institutions must respond promptly to requests.
Even if they are not prompt, in nearly all cases they must respond within 7 days. Sometimes if justified they may be able to ask for up to 15 more days, see (full details).
dumeditë will email you if you don't get a timely response. You can then send the public institution a message to remind them, and tell them if they are breaking the law.
There are several things you can do if you never get a response.
You can, of course, write articles about the information or summarise it, or quote parts of it. We also think you should feel free to republish the information in full, just as we do, even though in theory you might not be allowed to do so. See our policy on copyright.
Have a look at the access to public documents pages on the Information and Privacy Agency's website.
No. Requests made using dumeditë are public, made under the Access to Public Documents Law, and cannot help you find information about a private individual.
If you would like to know what information a public institution holds about yourself, you should make a "Subject Access Request" in private using Data Protection law. "This page " (on the Information and Privacy Agency's website) explains how to do this.
If you see that somebody has included personal information, perhaps unwittingly, in a request, please contact us immediately so we can remove it.
If you are a journalist, please contact us at [email protected] to get access to such a feature.
Otherwise, all responses that we receive are automatically published on the website for anyone to read. You should contact the public institution directly if you would like to make a request in private.
Annotations on dumeditë are to help people get the information they want, or to give them pointers to places they can go to help them act on it. We reserve the right to remove anything else.
Endless, political discussions are not allowed. Post a link to a suitable forum or campaign site elsewhere.
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