Enforcement notices · Local government
Bristol City Council
No fineEnforcement notices
Root cause
Misdirected communication
Personal data sent to the wrong recipient — the bcc field, the wrong attachment, the wrong address. Mundane, common, and expensive.
What happened
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued an enforcement notice to Bristol City Council (BCC) for failing to comply with its legal obligations to respond to people who asked for the personal information the council held on them – known as a subject access request (SAR).
Summarised from the notice published by the ICO on 27 August 2025. Read the original notice — it is the authoritative version.