Julia Cushion

@juliacushion.bsky.social

Policy & Advocacy Manager @ mySociety Clumsy, enthusiastic, interested in exciting things like parliament and cryptic crosswords (she/they)

🤩 FOI nerds, assemble! We've got great speakers from around the world for this free three-part series, please register! On Monday 28th Sept (Right to know day) we have Christian Anker from the Chilean Council for Transparency alongside Aiden Clarkson from the UK's @infocommission.bsky.social 💥

mySociety@mysociety.org · 2w ago

We're running a series of three free webinars on Access To Information globally - looking at how campaigners are defending #FOI in their countries, how people are building new Right To Information platforms, and the role of regulators. Sign up for one or more sessions here: pretix.eu/mysociety/3r...

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Webinar series
Title: Global ATI in practice: 
Subtitle: delivering, defending & building the Right To Know.

Useful to see FOI, Duty of Candour, and Inquiries under the same person (as different faces of the same problem)

Gavin Freeguard@gavinfreeguard.com · 4w ago

Ministerial responsibilities for Cabinet Office have been published (h/t @brigidfowler.bsky.social) www.gov.uk/government/o... Includes: - Sally Jameson sponsoring OneGov - Dan Tomlinson sponsoring the UK Stats Authority - Mark Ferguson supporting CS reform - Baroness Twycross gets FOI, standards

Should public data have to pay for itself? 🤑 We think charging for data risks reducing the value of public data and locking useful datasets away for the long term. Quick summary of our response to the government’s call for evidence: www.mysociety.org/2026/08/27/t...

The problem with making public data pay for itself

The government is looking at whether public bodies should have more freedom to charge for access to their data, and we've responded to its call for evidence. There are good reasons to be cautious abo...

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Organisation merch goals right?! This week our friends at SPOON in the Netherlands hosted our annual ATI Network day. We discussed what's helping (and hindering) freedom of information in practice, and why effective oversight matters just as much as having a good law.

What makes freedom of information work in practice? Reflections from ATI Day 2026

By continuing to learn from one another, we stand a much better chance of making the right to information work not just on paper, but in practice.

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