School Communications (FOI)

Request

All communication via email, WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Messenger, text messages, letter and online forms to and from Rob Sainsbury, Richard Vibert, Inna Gardiner, Ian Gorst, David Warr, Philip Bailache, Lyndon Farnham, Dirk Danini-Forsyth, including to all primary and secondary schools on the island, from the 7th October to date that contain the following words: "Palestine", "Israel", "West Bank", "Judea and Samaria" "Occupied Territories", "Hamas", "IDF", "Israeli Defence Forces", "Terrorism", "Prevent", "Netanyahu" and any abbreviated versions of the aforementioned. 

All communication via email to and from every primary and secondary school on the island from Deputy Inna Gardiner, for the period she served as Education Minister that contain the words: "Israel", "Gaza", "Palestine", "Hamas", "IDF", "Israel Defence Forces". This should include any emails that provide guidance about how a school should respond to the subject being raised.

I should also like similarly for Deputy Richard Vibert and Deputy Ian Gorst, from the 7th October to the current date.

Clarification 

All communication via email to and from every primary and secondary school on the island from Deputy Inna Gardiner, for the period she served as Education Minister that contain the words: "Israel", "Gaza", "Palestine", "Hamas", "IDF", "Israel Defense Forces". This should include any emails that provide guidance about how a school should respond to the subject being raised.

I should also like similarly for Deputy Richard Vibert and Deputy Ian Gorst, from the 7th October to the current date.

Response

To enable a search to be undertaken using the key words in your clarified request, the Government of Jersey’s email retrieval system would require each specific keyword or phrase to be searched within each individual’s account. As there are 25 Government of Jersey primary schools and 9 Government of Jersey secondary schools, numerous searches would be needed. The department have determined that this would take in excess of 12.5 working hours. Therefore Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied. 

Article applied

Article 16 - A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive

(1) A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations. 

(2) Despite paragraph (1), a scheduled public authority may still supply the information requested on payment to it of a fee determined by the authority in the manner prescribed by Regulations for the purposes of this Article.

(3) Regulations may provide that, in such circumstances as the Regulations prescribe, if two or more requests for information are made to a scheduled public authority –

(a) by one person; or

(b) by different persons who appear to the scheduled public authority to be acting in concert or in pursuance of a campaign, the estimated cost of complying with any of the requests is to be taken to be the estimated total cost of complying with all of them.