{"links":{"self":"https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/784116.json"},"data":{"type":"petition","id":784116,"attributes":{"action":"Introduce Criminal Penalties for Council, Housing Officials on day-to-day Basis","background":"Introduce statutory criminal penalties for Council, Housing, and Social Care mangers who engage in data spoliation, record tampering, and routine institutional abuse of power against members of the public.","additional_details":"The Public Office (Accountability) Bill focuses its criminal penalties & \"Duty of Candour\" on public disasters & formal inquires. It fails to explicitly cover day-to-day casework, routine housing applications, individual safeguarding files. This leaves a critical loophole allowing rogue local authority officials to alter, delete public files.\r\n\r\nExpand Hillsborough Law's Duty of Candour to cover day-to-day public casework-Create specific criminal offence for data spoliation by public officials.","committee_note":null,"state":"rejected","signature_count":6,"created_at":"2026-10-09T03:12:42.551Z","updated_at":"2026-11-12T10:47:36.496Z","rejected_at":"2026-11-12T10:47:36.499Z","opened_at":null,"closed_at":null,"moderation_threshold_reached_at":"2026-10-23T23:12:00.000Z","response_threshold_reached_at":null,"government_response_at":null,"debate_threshold_reached_at":null,"debate_scheduled_on":null,"scheduled_debate_date":null,"debate_outcome_at":null,"creator_name":null,"rejection":{"code":"already-happening","details":"We cannot accept this petition as the public officials and the type of misconduct referred to are already covered by the Public Office (Accountability) Bill section titled \"Misconduct in Public Office\", as set out in Schedule 4 of the Bill: https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/4019"},"government_response":null,"debate":null,"departments":[],"topics":[]}}}