Exclusion of the Public
[To consider, and if considered appropriate, to pass the following resolution to exclude the public from the meeting during the consideration of an item of business containing exempt information:
"RESOLVED: that under Section 100 I of the Local Government Act 1972, as amended, the public be excluded from the meeting during the consideration of the following item of business on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined in Part I of Schedule 12A to the Act, as amended, the relevant paragraphs of that part being as set out below, and that it is in the public interest to do so:
Item No. Paragraphs
5 1, 2 & 7C" ]
Minutes:
The Committee considered whether or not to exclude the public from the meeting for the consideration of Agenda Item No. 5; Consideration of Investigating Officer's Final Report into Complaint References 03/10 and 04/10. In doing so, the Chairman announced that the meeting be adjourned to take legal advice.
Accordingly, the meeting was adjourned from 4.08pm to 4.18pm.
Having reconvened, the Deputy Monitoring Officer summarised the legal advice given to the Committee and confirmed that the Committee had agreed to lift the exemption as it was not felt that the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighed the public interest in disclosing the information. It was noted however that the Investigating Officer's report contained certain personal information, some of which also fell within the category of sensitive material, meaning suitably redacted copies only of the report could be made available to the public.
RESOLVED that the public not be excluded from the meeting during the consideration of Agenda Item No. 5 and that the relevant reports therefore be placed in the public domain.