Correspondence relating to the George Carteret statue (FOI)

Requests

A

Please supply all emails from and to Deputy Tadier, Senator Mezec, officers and Trustees of Jersey Heritage on the subject of Sir George Carteret, Statues, Slaves, former Constable St Peter John Refault including any departmental communications on the afore mentioned subjects during this year 2020 only.

B

Please supply all emails from and to Deputy Tadier on the subject of Sir George Carteret, Statues, Slaves, former Constable St Peter John Refault including any departmental communications on the afore mentioned subjects during this year 2020 only.

C

Please supply all emails from and to Senator Mezec on the subject of Sir George Carteret, Statues, Slaves, former Constable St Peter John Refault including any departmental communications on the afore mentioned subjects during this year 2020 only.

Responses

A to C

A search was undertaken on the accounts of Deputy Tadier and Senator Mezec, in their roles as Ministers, using the keywords Sir George Carteret, Statues, Slaves and Refault between 1st January and 12th October (the date of this request).

The resulting emails are attached and have been redacted where required under Article 25 (Personal Information) of the Freedom of Information Jersey Law 2011.

Email messages

Individual States members are not covered by the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 in their own right. Members do not have any obligations under the Law in an individual capacity and are not listed as a scheduled public authority.

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.