Mum challenges council spy powers
Updated on 05 November 2009
A mother-of-three has branded a council "ludicrous and completely outrageous" as she took the authority to court for using controversial powers to spy on her family.
Poole Borough Council was accused of playing "fast and loose" in its attempts to establish whether Jenny Paton's children lived in the correct school catchment area.
Her complaint surrounds the use of the controversial Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa).
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