A large dump of heavily redacted material has been released by Bristol City Council to local SEND campaigner and blogger Chopsy through a Subject Access Request – part of GDPR personal data rights regulations.

She’s one of the SEND parents severely harassed by senior council bosses through an ugly intimidatory campaign of systematic surveillance of her social media.

Despite their best efforts to cover-up their actions with redactions, this data release looks like even more bad news for council bosses. Revealing that they went beyond monitoring social media and were snooping on parents in ‘real life’ too.

In one email we now find the state openly collecting and circulating the names of people attending a small SEND protest at City Hall on 8 April 2001:

Another email suggests the council used covert human intelligence sources to find out what certain parents and third party organisations were up to:

Despite this type of intelligence gathering by the state being unlawful, a third party obtained information from persons unknown, sent it to a council boss who then circulated it among numerous colleagues.

Stasi, the KGB and Big Brother eat your heart out!