GovRedact: Safer, Simpler FOIs and SARs

Take the hours and uncertainty out of information requests, while keeping every redaction under your control.

Free 60-Minute Live Webinar + Q&A 

Overview:

FOIs, SARs and other information requests create a growing administrative burden for councils of every size.

For some councils, a single request can take hours to work through. For larger councils handling dozens every month, the challenge is keeping the whole process consistent, secure and under control, while meeting statutory deadlines.

The information can be spread across emails, attachments, Word documents, PDFs and scanned correspondence. Every document has to be reviewed, personal and sensitive information identified, exemptions applied, redactions checked and the final disclosure properly prepared.

Finding everything that needs to be removed, making the right decisions, ensuring the information really is removed, and being able to show what happened afterwards, is the reality of this work.

GovRedact brings that process together in one place.

This webinar takes you through a realistic council case from request to disclosure, showing how GovRedact helps officers manage documents, make and record redaction decisions, apply those decisions across a case, produce a secure disclosure bundle and retain a clear audit trail.

What You’ll Cover:

• Where the workload builds up — finding, reviewing and redacting information across a typical council request
• One place for the case — managing the request and its documents through a structured workflow
• Redacting with confidence — highlight information, apply an exemption and record the reason for the decision
• Redact once, apply across the case — avoid repeatedly finding the same name, address or phrase in multiple documents
• Proper PDF redaction — permanently remove underlying text rather than simply placing a black box over it
• Officer control — every redaction is a decision made and signed off by a named officer
• A defensible audit trail — see who made each decision, when they made it and which exemption was applied
• From review to disclosure — generate a safety-checked disclosure bundle ready to send

More Than FOIs AND SARs : 

GovRedact can also be used whenever a council needs to remove personal information before sharing or publishing any documents, from grant applications, to public registers.

The product is designed around human decision-making. You choose what to redact, select the exemption and record the reason. The system keeps the evidence of those decisions and prevents the disclosure bundle being generated until the case has been reviewed and signed off.

AI-assisted detection is coming as an additional capability.

Who Should Attend:

Ideal for parish and town clerks, RFOs and anyone responsible for handling FOIs, SARs, EIRs or the disclosure of council information.

Especially useful if your current process involves manually searching emails and documents, redacting in Word or PDF software, or keeping separate records of what has been reviewed and why.

No technical knowledge is needed.

What to Expect:

• Format: 60-minute live online webinar
• Includes: Live demonstration, practical examples and Q&A
• Cost: Free to attend

Continue Your Learning Journey:

See how AI can support wider council work with GovAssist: Practical AI for Local Government, or reduce the administration around meetings with GovMeetings: Less Meeting Admin, More Time on What Matters.