This webinar provided an overview of local authority obligations and processes under RIPSA, including:

  • the statutory framework and codes of practice;
  • key concepts such as intrusive surveillance, directed surveillance and covert human intelligence sources;
  • authorisation requirements, including the legal tests of necessity and proportionality;
  • the relationship with the Investigatory Powers Act in respect of communications data; and
  • RIPSA’s application to the monitoring of social media.

We also considered case studies raising difficult issues, and explain how those could be handled in practice.

This session covered a wide range of issues, making it valuable for all local authority lawyers and officers who deal with investigatory powers, whatever their level of experience with RIPSA.

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Charles Livingstone

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