Government of Jersey

Confiscations at secondary schools (FOI)

Produced by the Freedom of Information office
Authored by States of Jersey and published on 05 July 2017.

Request

How many of the following substances were confiscated from students at States of Jersey secondary schools in the academic years 2014 to 2015 and 2015 to 2016:

alcoholic substances

drugs

cigarettes

e-cigarettes

other prohibited substances

Response

	2014 to 2015	2015 to 2016
Alcoholic substances	<5	5
Drugs	<5	<5
Cigarettes	15	12
E-cigarettes	<5	<5
Other prohibited substances	<5	<5

The Education Department are unable to provide a breakdown of the data supplied by school as the numbers are small, and as such, Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied to this request.

Numbers less than five have been shown as less than five (<5). Disclosure control has been applied to the data in order to protect the identity of individual pupils.

Exemption applied

Article 25 Personal Information

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005.

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if –

(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2005; and

(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.