Request Your Personal Data From the Authority
You have the right to ask the authority for all personal data they hold about you — including photos, camera footage, officer notes, and what legal reason they used to process your data. Send this request alongside any appeal. The authority must reply within one month. If they do not, you can make a separate complaint to the Data Protection Commission.
Legal basis
GDPR Art. 15-22; Data Protection Act 2018 ss.91-94.
How to identify this in your case
Always issue SAR alongside any dispute. Pressures the authority and produces evidence essential for a substantive defence.
Sample appeal wording
Data Protection Officer [Issuing Authority] Re: Subject Access Request - FCN [NUMBER] Data Subject: [NAME], [ADDRESS], [DOB] Vehicle: [REG] Under Article 15 GDPR (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) and s.91 Data Protection Act 2018, I require within one month: 1. Confirmation of all personal data held about me re the FCN. 2. Copies of all photographs, body-worn camera footage, CCTV, ANPR records. 3. Contemporaneous notes of the issuing officer (notebook). 4. Identity and PSA/Garda number of the issuing officer. 5. Data Protection Impact Assessment for the enforcement scheme. 6. Lawful basis for processing under Article 6 GDPR. 7. Retention period. 8. Third parties to whom data has been disclosed. 9. Categories of recipients and any transfers outside the EEA. 10. Right to lodge a complaint with the DPC. Failure to respond within one month is a breach of Article 12 GDPR and grounds for complaint to the DPC. No enforcement should proceed until the SAR is fulfilled. Yours faithfully, [NAME]
Replace [PARKING DATE], [NtK DATE] etc. with your own dates before sending.
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