Body and dashcam footage of an arrest (FOI)Body and dashcam footage of an arrest (FOI)
Produced by the Freedom of Information officeAuthored by Government of Jersey and published on
21 August 2023.Prepared internally, no external costs.
Request
Please provide footage all officers' body and dash cam footage from the arrest of [name redacted] at [location redacted] on [date redacted].
Response
This request is refused under Article 25(2) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011.
Article 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 2018.
(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 2018; and
(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.
3) In determining for the purposes of this Article whether the lawfulness principle in Article 8(1)(a) of the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018 would be contravened by the disclosure of information, paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 2 to that Law (legitimate interests) is to be read as if sub-paragraph (b) (which disapplies the provision where the controller is a public authority) were omitted.